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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 : Security update golang-github-prometheus-prometheus (SUSE-SU-2025:0546-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 216393

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0546-1 advisory.

 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus was updated from version 2.45.6 to 2.53.3 (jsc#PED-11649):

 - Security issues fixed:
 * CVE-2024-51744: Updated golang-jwt to version 5.0 to fix bad error handling (bsc#1232970)

 - Highlights of other changes:
 * Performance:
 - Significant enhancements to PromQL execution speed, TSDB operations (especially querying and compaction) and remote write operations.
 - Default GOGC value lowered to 75 for better memory management.
 - Option to limit memory usage from dropped targets added.
 * New Features:
 - Experimental OpenTelemetry ingestion.
 - Automatic memory limit handling.
 - Native histogram support, including new functions, UI enhancements, and improved scraping.
 - Improved alerting features, such as relabeling rules for AlertmanagerConfig and a new query_offset option.
 - Expanded service discovery options with added metadata and support for new services.
 - New promtool commands for PromQL formatting, label manipulation, metric pushing, and OpenMetrics dumping.
 * Bug Fixes:
 - Numerous fixes across scraping, API, TSDB, PromQL, and service discovery.
 * For a detailed list of changes consult the package changelog or https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/compare/v2.45.6...v2.53.3

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

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 firewalld-prometheus-config and / or golang-github-prometheus-prometheus packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232970

http://www.nessus.org/u?ee2ed6b6

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-51744

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 216393

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0546-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/17/2025

Updated: 2/19/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-51744

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.1

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-51744

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0546-1