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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : eclipse, maven-surefire, tycho (SUSE-SU-2024:1304-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193388

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1304-1 advisory.

 - In Eclipse IDE versions < 2023-09 (4.29) some files with xml content are parsed vulnerable against all sorts of XXE attacks. The user just needs to open any evil project or update an open project with a vulnerable file (for example for review a foreign repository or patch). (CVE-2023-4218)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1216992

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-April/034994.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4218

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 193388

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1304-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/17/2024

Updated: 4/17/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4218

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:eclipse-equinox-osgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:maven-surefire-provider-testng, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:eclipse-emf-core-bootstrap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:eclipse-pde, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:eclipse-emf-core, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:maven-surefire-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:eclipse-pde-bootstrap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:eclipse-platform-bootstrap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:eclipse-swt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:eclipse-swt-bootstrap, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:eclipse-platform, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:eclipse-contributor-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:maven-surefire-provider-junit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:maven-surefire, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:eclipse-equinox-osgi-bootstrap

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4218

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1304-1