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openSUSE Leap 15.5: sssd Important Privilege Escalation Fix CVE-2025-11561

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical update for openSUSE Leap to address privilege escalation in sssd. Patch recommended for affected systems.
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)

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 15.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-4182=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-4182=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2025-4182=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-4182=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-4182=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP5-2025-4182=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libsss_nss_idmap0-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* sssd-debugsource-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* libsss_simpleifp0-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* sssd-proxy-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* sssd-common-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* sssd-ldap-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* libsss_certmap0-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* libsss_idmap-devel-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* python3-sss_nss_idmap-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* sssd-krb5-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* libnfsidmap-sss-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* libsss_simpleifp0-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* sssd-krb5-common-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* sssd-proxy-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* python3-ipa_hbac-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* python3-ipa_hbac-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* sssd-common-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* sssd-ad-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* libsss_certmap-devel-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* sssd-dbus-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* sssd-kcm-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

* python3-sssd-config-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.39.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

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

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:4182-1
Release Date: 2025-11-24T07:56:26Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

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