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openSUSE: Crucial Privilege Escalation Patch CVE-2025-11561 2025:4231-1

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Calendar Grey November 25, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important security update is available for openSUSE addressing a critical privilege escalation risk in sssd.
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 important OpenSUSE sssd cve-2025-11561

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 15.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-4231=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-4231=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-4231=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-4231=1

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7.1-2025-4231=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-4231=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-4231=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libsss_idmap0-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* sssd-proxy-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* sssd-krb5-common-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* sssd-ad-debuginfo-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* python3-sss-murmur-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* libsss_certmap0-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* sssd-tools-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* sssd-winbind-idmap-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* libsss_nss_idmap0-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* libnfsidmap-sss-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* python3-sssd-config-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* libsss_idmap-devel-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* libipa_hbac0-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* libipa_hbac-devel-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* sssd-ipa-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* sssd-krb5-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* sssd-ad-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* sssd-dbus-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* sssd-tools-debuginfo-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* libsss_idmap0-debuginfo-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* python3-sss-murmur-debuginfo-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* sssd-common-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

* sssd-ldap-debuginfo-1.16.1-150300.23.56.1

*...

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

Severity
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Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:4231-1
Release Date: 2025-11-25T14:12:14Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 * SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation important OpenSUSE sssd cve-2025-11561

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