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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : mercurial (SUSE-SU-2025:1054-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 233489

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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-2025:1054-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-2361: Fixed improper sanitization of user-controlled input passed via the cmd parameter in the Mercurial SCM Web Interface (bsc#1239685)

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 mercurial, mercurial-lang and / or mercurial-tests packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1239685

http://www.nessus.org/u?cd95a087

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2361

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 233489

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1054-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 3/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-2361

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mercurial, 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: 3/28/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-2361

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1054-1