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openSUSE Leap 16.0 Cockpit Important Resource Vuln 2026-20504-1

opensuse
Calendar Grey April 21, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical openSUSE cockpit update addresses important vulnerabilities with patch instructions. Protect your system now.
An update that solves 2 vulnerabilities and has 2 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for cockpit fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2026-25547: brace-expansion: unbounded brace range expansion can lead to excessive resource consumption and crash

a Node.js process (bsc#1257836).

- CVE-2026-26996: minimatch: processing of glob pattern containing repeated wildcards followed by a literal character

that doesn't appear in the test string can lead to ReDoS (bsc#1258641).

Patch instructions:

To install this openSUSE security update use the suse recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 16.0

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-16.0-520=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory important resource consumption OpenSUSE REDoS cockpit

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

cockpit-354-160000.2.1

cockpit-bridge-354-160000.2.1

cockpit-devel-354-160000.2.1

cockpit-doc-354-160000.2.1

cockpit-firewalld-354-160000.2.1

cockpit-kdump-354-160000.2.1

cockpit-networkmanager-354-160000.2.1

cockpit-packagekit-354-160000.2.1

cockpit-selinux-354-160000.2.1

cockpit-storaged-354-160000.2.1

cockpit-system-354-160000.2.1

cockpit-ws-354-160000.2.1

cockpit-ws-selinux-354-160000.2.1

References

* bsc#1257836

* bsc#1258641

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-25547.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-26996.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20504-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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Topics Covered

security advisory important resource consumption OpenSUSE REDoS cockpit

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