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SUSE openCryptoki Moderate DoS Privilege Escalation Issue 2026-20434-1

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Calendar Grey February 18, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE released a moderate security advisory for openCryptoki addressing two vulnerabilities. Essential updates available.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and contains two features can now be installed.

Summary

## This update for openCryptoki fixes the following issues: Upgrade openCryptoki to 3.26 (jsc#PED-14609) Security fixes: * CVE-2026-22791: supplying malformed compressed EC public key can lead to heap corruption or denial-of-service (bsc#1256673). * CVE-2026-23893: Privilege Escalation or Data Exposure via Symlink Following (bsc#1257116). Other fixes: * Soft: Add support for RSA keys up to 16K bits. * CCA: Add support for RSA keys up to 8K bits (requires CCA v8.4 or v7.6 or later). * p11sak: Add support for generating RSA keys up to 16K bits. * Soft/ICA: Add support for SHA512/224 and SHA512/256 key derivation mechanism (CKM_SHA512_224_KEY_DERIVATION and CKM_SHA512_256_KEY_DERIVATION). * Soft/ICA/CCA/EP11: Add support for SHA-HMAC key types CKK_SHAxxx_HMAC and key gen mechanisms CKM_SHAxxx_KEY_GEN.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service SuSE privilege escalation opencryptoki

References

* bsc#1256673

* bsc#1257116

* jsc#PED-14609

* jsc#PED-14798

Cross-

* CVE-2026-22791

* CVE-2026-23893

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2026-22791 ( SUSE ): 6.9

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2026-22791 ( SUSE ): 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

* CVE-2026-22791 ( NVD ): 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

* CVE-2026-22791 ( NVD ): 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

* CVE-2026-23893 ( SUSE ): 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

* CVE-2026-23893 ( NVD ): 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 16.0

An update that solves two vulnerabilities and contains two features can now be

installed.

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:20434-1
Release Date: 2026-02-13T17:42:04Z
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service SuSE privilege escalation opencryptoki

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