SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 : Recommended update for apache-commons-io (SUSE-SU-SUSE-RU-2025:1150-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 233990

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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-SUSE-RU-2025:1150-1 advisory.

apache-commons-io was updated from version 2.15.1 to 2.18.0:

- Key changes across versions:
* Cleaner code and updated dependencies
* Improved security when handling serialized data with the new safe deserialization feature
* New features for advanced file and stream operations
* Various bugs were fixed to improve reliability with fewer crashes and unexpected errors
* For the full list of changes please consult the packaged RELEASE-NOTES.txt

- Already fixed in previous version:
* CVE-2024-47554: Untrusted input to XmlStreamReader can lead to uncontrolled resource consumption (bsc#1231298)

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 apache-commons-io and / or apache-commons-io-javadoc packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 233990

File Name: suse_SU-RU-2025-1150-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/8/2025

Updated: 4/8/2025

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-47554

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:N/A:L

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache-commons-io, 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: 4/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/3/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-47554

SuSE: SUSE-RU-2025:1150-1

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