The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5527 advisory.

    The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK web engine: CVE-2023-39928 Marcin Noga     discovered that a specially crafted web page can abuse a vulnerability in the MediaRecorder API to cause     memory corruption and potentially arbitrary code execution. CVE-2023-41074 Junsung Lee and Me Li     discovered that processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2023-41993 Bill Marczak     and Maddie Stone discovered that processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is     aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited. For the oldstable distribution     (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2.42.1-1~deb11u1. For the stable distribution     (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 2.42.1-1~deb12u1. We recommend that you upgrade your     webkit2gtk packages. For the detailed security status of webkit2gtk please refer to its security tracker     page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/webkit2gtk

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Debian DSA-5527-1 : webkit2gtk - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 183018

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Version 1.2 Jan 24, 2025, 9:25 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202501242125
Version 1.1 Aug 15, 2024, 7:24 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 8.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") Plugin Feed: 202408150724
Version 1.0 Oct 13, 2023, 6:12 AM New Plugin Feed: 202310130612