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openSUSE: Salt Important Security Fix CVE-2025-62348 Advisory 2025:4475-1

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2025
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Security update for Salt on openSUSE closes two issues and delivers security fixes with CVE-2025-62348, important.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has six security fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

* Security issues fixed:

* CVE-2025-62349: Added minimum_auth_version to enforce security (bsc#1254257)

* CVE-2025-62348: Fixed Junos module yaml loader (bsc#1254256)

* Backport security fixes for vendored tornado

* BDSA-2024-3438

* BDSA-2024-3439

* BDSA-2024-9026

* Other changes and bugs fixed:

* Fixed TLS and x509 modules for OSes with older cryptography module

* Fixed Salt for Python > 3.11 (bsc#1252285) (bsc#1252244)

* Use external tornado on Python > 3.11

* Make tls and x509 to use python-cryptography

* Remove usage of spwd

* Fixed payload signature verification on Tumbleweed (bsc#1251776)

* Fixed broken symlink on migration to Leap 16.0 (bsc#1250755)

* Fixed known_hosts error on gitfs (bsc#1250520) (bsc#1227207)

* Improved SL Micro 6.2 detection with grains

* Reverted requirement of M2Crypto >= 0.44.0 for SUSE Family distros

* Set python-CherryPy as required for...

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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 15.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-4475=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-4475=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-4475=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-4475=1

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7.1-2025-4475=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-4475=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-4475=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* python3-salt-testsuite-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-master-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-ssh-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-proxy-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-syndic-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-doc-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-minion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* python3-salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-cloud-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-api-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch)

* salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (aarch64

x86_64)

* salt-master-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-ssh-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-proxy-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

* salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1227207

* bsc#1250520

* bsc#1250755

* bsc#1251776

* bsc#1252244

* bsc#1252285

* bsc#1254256

* bsc#1254257

* jsc#MSQA-1034

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62348.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62349.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227207

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250520

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250755

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251776

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252244

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252285

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254256

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254257

* https://jira.suse.com/login.jsp?permissionViolation=true&os_destination=https%3A%2F%2Fjira.suse.com%2Fbrowse%2FMSQA-1034

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:4475-1
Release Date: 2025-12-18T12:08:22Z
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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