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openSUSE Leap 15.5: Salt Important Security Issues CVE-2025-62348,62349

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Latest openSUSE salt update addresses two important security issues with necessary patches and security fixes.
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 15.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-4477=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-4477=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-4477=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-4477=1

* Server Applications Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP6-2025-4477=1

* Systems Management Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Systems-Management-15-SP6-2025-4477=1

* Transactional Server Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Transactional-Server-15-SP6-2025-4477=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2025-4477=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing...

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Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* salt-doc-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* python311-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* python311-salt-testsuite-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* salt-cloud-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* python3-salt-testsuite-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* salt-ssh-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* salt-master-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* salt-proxy-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* salt-syndic-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* salt-api-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)

* salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* salt-doc-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* python311-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

* salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150500.4.65.1

*...

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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-2025:4477-1
Release Date: 2025-12-18T12:10:19Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * openSUSE Leap 15.5 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * Server Applications Module 15-SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * 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 Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 * Systems Management Module 15-SP6 * Transactional Server Module 15-SP6

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