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openSUSE: salt Critical Advisory 2025:02500-1 CVE-2024-38822 CVE-2025-22236

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2025
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This alert highlights critical enhancements for salt, aimed at remedying several security flaws, notably including Denial of Service issues.
An update that solves 12 vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

* Security issues fixed:

* CVE-2024-38822: Fixed Minion token validation (bsc#1244561)

* CVE-2024-38823: Fixed server vulnerability to replay attacks when not using

a TLS encrypted transport (bsc#1244564)

* CVE-2024-38824: Fixed directory traversal vulnerability in recv_file method

(bsc#1244565)

* CVE-2024-38825: Fixed salt.auth.pki module authentication issue

(bsc#1244566)

* CVE-2025-22240: Fixed arbitrary directory creation or file deletion with

GitFS (bsc#1244567)

* CVE-2025-22236: Fixed Minion event bus authorization bypass (bsc#1244568)

* CVE-2025-22241: Fixed the use of un-validated input in the VirtKey class

(bsc#1244570)

* CVE-2025-22237: Fixed exploitation of the 'on demand' pillar functionality

(bsc#1244571)

* CVE-2025-22238: Fixed the master's default cache vulnerability to a

directory traversal attack (bsc#1244572)

* CVE-2025-22239: Fixed the arbitrary event injection on...

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Topics Covered

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-2500=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-2500=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-2500=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-2500=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-2500=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-ESPOS-2025-2500=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-2500=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-2500=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for...

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Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* salt-syndic-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* salt-doc-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* python311-salt-testsuite-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* salt-ssh-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* salt-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* salt-api-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* salt-master-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* salt-proxy-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* python3-salt-testsuite-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* salt-cloud-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* python311-salt-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch)

* salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

* salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* salt-minion-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* salt-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* python3-salt-3006.0-150400.8.80.1

* SUSE Linux...

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References

* bsc#1236621

* bsc#1243268

* bsc#1244561

* bsc#1244564

* bsc#1244565

* bsc#1244566

* bsc#1244567

* bsc#1244568

* bsc#1244570

* bsc#1244571

* bsc#1244572

* bsc#1244574

* bsc#1244575

* jsc#MSQA-993

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-38822.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-38823.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-38824.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-38825.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22236.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22237.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22238.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22239.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22240.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22241.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22242.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-47287.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1236621

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243268

*...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02500-1
Release Date: 2025-07-23T12:46:44Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Server 4.3

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