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openSUSE: Crucial Fix for Privilege Escalation CVE-2025-11561 2025:4181-1

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important update for openSUSE addressing privilege escalation risks in sssd. Install now to enhance system security.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for sssd fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-11561: Fixed privilege escalation on AD-joined Linux systems due to

default Kerberos configuration disabling localauth an2ln plugin

(bsc#1251827)

Other fixes:

* Install file in krb5.conf.d to include sssd krb5 config snippets

(bsc#1244325)

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation security fix important OpenSUSE sssd

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:

* SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 LTS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Retail-Branch-

Server-4.3-LTS-2025-4181=1

* SUSE Manager Server 4.3 LTS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Server-4.3-LTS-2025-4181=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-4181=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-4181=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-4181=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-4181=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-4181=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-ESPOS-2025-4181=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High...

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Package List

* SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 LTS (x86_64)

* sssd-ldap-debuginfo-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* libsss_nss_idmap0-debuginfo-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* libsss_idmap0-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* libipa_hbac-devel-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* sssd-proxy-debuginfo-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* sssd-proxy-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* sssd-winbind-idmap-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* sssd-krb5-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* sssd-ipa-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* sssd-tools-debuginfo-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* sssd-tools-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* libsss_idmap-devel-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* sssd-kcm-debuginfo-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* sssd-ad-debuginfo-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* sssd-winbind-idmap-debuginfo-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* libsss_simpleifp-devel-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* sssd-dbus-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* libipa_hbac0-debuginfo-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* sssd-krb5-common-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* sssd-common-debuginfo-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* libsss_certmap-devel-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* python3-sssd-config-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

* sssd-dbus-debuginfo-2.5.2-150400.4.40.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1244325

* bsc#1251827

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-11561.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244325

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251827

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:4181-1
Release Date: 2025-11-24T07:55:47Z
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 Proxy 4.3 LTS * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 LTS * SUSE Manager Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Server 4.3 LTS

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