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SUSE Linux Micro: Crucial Patch for Privilege Escalation CVE-2025-11561

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Calendar Grey January 9, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
A security update for SUSE addresses a critical issue in sssd, resolving privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one fix can now be installed.

Summary

## This update for sssd fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-11561: Fixed default Kerberos configuration allowing privilege escalation on AD-joined Linux systems (bsc#1244325) ## 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: * SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SL-Micro-6.2-119=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64) * sssd-ad-2.9.5-160000.3.1 * libsss_certmap0-2.9.5-160000.3.1 * sssd-krb5-common-2.9.5-160000.3.1 * sssd-ldap-2.9.5-160000.3.1 * sssd-tools-debuginfo-2.9.5-160000.3.1 * python3-sssd-config-2.9.5-160000.3.1 * libsss_certmap0-debuginfo-2.9.5-160000.3.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory SuSE privilege escalation threat important sssd

References

* bsc#1244325

* bsc#1251827

Cross-

* CVE-2025-11561

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-11561 ( SUSE ): 8.7

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

* CVE-2025-11561 ( SUSE ): 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2025-11561 ( NVD ): 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Micro 6.2

An update that solves one vulnerability and has one fix can now be installed.

##

* 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

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:20014-1
Release Date: 2026-01-02T16:58:31Z
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory SuSE privilege escalation threat important sssd

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