The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5557 advisory.

    The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK web engine: CVE-2023-41983 Junsung Lee     discovered that processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service. CVE-2023-42852 An anonymous     researcher discovered that processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. For the oldstable     distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2.42.2-1~deb11u1. For the stable     distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 2.42.2-1~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-5557-1 : webkit2gtk - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 185957

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.2 Jan 24, 2025, 11:52 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202501242352
Version 1.1 Dec 1, 2023, 2:20 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202312011420
Version 1.0 Nov 17, 2023, 5:24 PM New Plugin Feed: 202311171724