SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : apptainer (SUSE-SU-2025:0980-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 233207

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0980-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-27144: Fixed Denial of Service in Go JOSE's Parsing (bsc#1237679).
- CVE-2024-45338: Fixed denial of service due to non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content (bsc#1234794).
- CVE-2024-45337: Fixed Misuse of ServerConfig.PublicKeyCallback may cause authorization bypass in golang.org/x/crypto (bsc#1234595).
- CVE-2025-22870: Fixed proxy bypass using IPv6 zone IDs (bsc#1238611).
- CVE-2025-22869: Fixed Denial of Service in the Key Exchange of golang.org/x/crypto/ssh (bsc#1239341).
- CVE-2024-41110: Fixed Authz zero length regression (bsc#1228324).

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 apptainer, apptainer-leap, apptainer-sle15_5 and / or apptainer-sle15_6 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 233207

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0980-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/22/2025

Updated: 3/22/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45337

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.9

Temporal Score: 8.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-41110

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27144

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apptainer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apptainer-sle15_6, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 3/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-41110, CVE-2024-45337, CVE-2024-45338, CVE-2025-22869, CVE-2025-22870, CVE-2025-27144

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0980-1

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