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SUSE Advisory 2025:21066-1 for sssd: Critical Privilege Escalation Fix

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Calendar Grey November 27, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
Important security update for SUSE sssd addressing a privilege escalation issue linked to CVE-2025-11561. Install now!
* bsc#1244325 * bsc#1251827 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-11561

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#1251827) Other fixes: \- Install file in krb5.conf.d to include sssd krb5 config snippets (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 6.1 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.1-344=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64) * libsss_nss_idmap0-2.9.5-slfo.1.1_4.1 * libsss_certmap0-2.9.5-slfo.1.1_4.1 * sssd-krb5-2.9.5-slfo.1.1_4.1 * sssd-ldap-2.9.5-slfo.1.1_4.1 * sssd-ad-debuginfo-2.9.5-slfo.1.1_4.1

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Topics Covered

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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 6.1

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-2025:21066-1
Release Date: 2025-11-26T14:27:32Z
Rating: important

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