SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : cosign (SUSE-SU-2025:1333-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 234602

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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 a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:1333-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-6104: cosign: hashicorp/go-retryablehttp: Fixed sensitive information disclosure to log file (bsc#1227031)
- CVE-2024-51744: cosign: github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4: Fixed bad documentation of error handling in ParseWithClaims leading to potentially dangerous situations (bsc#1232985)
- CVE-2025-27144: cosign: github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4,github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3: Fixed denial of service in Go JOSE's Parsing (bsc#1237682)
- CVE-2025-22870: cosign: golang.org/x/net/proxy: Fixed proxy bypass using IPv6 zone IDs (bsc#1238693)
- CVE-2025-22868: cosign: golang.org/x/oauth2/jws: Fixed unexpected memory consumption during token parsing (bsc#1239204)
- CVE-2025-22869: cosign: golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: Fixed denial of service in the Key Exchange (bsc#1239337)

Other fixes:

- Update to version 2.5.0 (jsc#SLE-23476):
* Update sigstore-go to pick up bug fixes (#4150)
* Update golangci-lint to v2, update golangci-lint-action (#4143)
* Feat/non filename completions (#4115)
* update builder to use go1.24.1 (#4116)
* Add support for new bundle specification for attesting/verifying OCI image attestations (#3889)
* Remove cert log line (#4113)
* cmd/cosign/cli: fix typo in ignoreTLogMessage (#4111)
* bump to latest scaffolding release for testing (#4099)
* increase 2e2_test docker compose tiemout to 180s (#4091)
* Fix replace with compliant image mediatype (#4077)
* Add TSA certificate related flags and fields for cosign attest (#4079)

- Update to version 2.4.3 (jsc#SLE-23476):
* Enable fetching signatures without remote get. (#4047)
* Bump sigstore/sigstore to support KMS plugins (#4073)
* sort properly Go imports (#4071)
* sync comment with parameter name in function signature (#4063)
* fix go imports order to be alphabetical (#4062)
* fix comment typo and imports order (#4061)
* Feat/file flag completion improvements (#4028)
* Udpate builder to use go1.23.6 (#4052)
* Refactor verifyNewBundle into library function (#4013)
* fix parsing error in --only for cosign copy (#4049)
* Fix codeowners syntax, add dep-maintainers (#4046)

- Update to version 2.4.2 (jsc#SLE-23476):
- Updated open-policy-agent to 1.1.0 library (#4036)
- Note that only Rego v0 policies are supported at this time
- Add UseSignedTimestamps to CheckOpts, refactor TSA options (#4006)
- Add support for verifying root checksum in cosign initialize (#3953)
- Detect if user supplied a valid protobuf bundle (#3931)
- Add a log message if user doesn't provide --trusted-root (#3933)
- Support mTLS towards container registry (#3922)
- Add bundle create helper command (#3901)
- Add trusted-root create helper command (#3876) Bug Fixes:
- fix: set tls config while retaining other fields from default http transport (#4007)
- policy fuzzer: ignore known panics (#3993)
- Fix for multiple WithRemote options (#3982)
- Add nightly conformance test workflow (#3979)
- Fix copy --only for signatures + update/align docs (#3904)

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 cosign package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 234602

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1333-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/18/2025

Updated: 4/18/2025

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: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6104

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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:cosign, 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: 4/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/24/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-51744, CVE-2024-6104, CVE-2025-22868, CVE-2025-22869, CVE-2025-22870, CVE-2025-27144

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1333-1

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