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openSUSE Leap 16.0 himmelblau Important Auth Bypass CVE-2026-45108

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2026
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Security update for himmelblau addresses a critical issue related to authentication bypass in openSUSE.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one bug fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for himmelblau fixes the following issue

- CVE-2026-45108: authentication bypass vulnerability in the Device Authorization Grant (DAG) flow (bsc#1266662).

Changes for himmelblau:

- Update to version 2.3.11+git1.116c6763:

* Update cargo vet audits for backport

* deps(rust): bump the all-cargo-updates group with 19 updates

- Update to version 2.3.10:

* nss/pam: bail out early when SYSTEMD_ACTIVATION_UNIT points to himmelblau

* selinux: allow unconfined_service_t to search himmelblaud_t dirs

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-16.0-976=1

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security advisory update important authentication bypass OpenSUSE himmelblau

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

himmelblau-2.3.11+git1.116c6763-160000.1.1

himmelblau-qr-greeter-2.3.11+git1.116c6763-160000.1.1

himmelblau-sshd-config-2.3.11+git1.116c6763-160000.1.1

himmelblau-sso-2.3.11+git1.116c6763-160000.1.1

libnss_himmelblau2-2.3.11+git1.116c6763-160000.1.1

pam-himmelblau-2.3.11+git1.116c6763-160000.1.1

References

* bsc#1266662

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-45108.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:21111-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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