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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : pam_pkcs11 (SUSE-SU-2025:0689-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 216733

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0689-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-24032: default value for `cert_policy` (`none`) allows for authentication bypass (bsc#1237062).
 - CVE-2025-24031: uninitialized pointer dereference caused by user pressing ctrl-c/ctrl-d when asked for PIN leads to crash (bsc#1237058).

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

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

Solution

Update the affected pam_pkcs11, pam_pkcs11-32bit and / or pam_pkcs11-devel-doc packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237058

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237062

http://www.nessus.org/u?bcf7ca3d

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-24031

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-24032

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 216733

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0689-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/25/2025

Updated: 2/25/2025

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: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-24032

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.2

Threat Score: 7.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pam_pkcs11, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pam_pkcs11-32bit

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: 2/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-24031, CVE-2025-24032

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0689-1