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SUSE Helm Important Escalation Fix SUSE-SU-2026-22233-1 CVE-2026-39821

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Calendar Grey June 23, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
This SUSE update for helm addresses CVE-2026-39821, which leads to privilege escalation. Details and updates included.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Summary

## This update for helm fixes the following issue * CVE-2026-39821: golang.org/x/net/idna: failure to reject ASCII-only Punycode-encoded labels allows for validation bypass and privilege escalation (bsc#1266598). Changes for helm: * Update to version 3.21.1: * Fixed nil pointer panic that could happen with helm template in ClientOnly flows. Now correctly returns a template error #31920 * Bumped golang.org/x/net to v0.55.0 to address GO-2026-5026 #32152 * Bumped Go from 1.25 to 1.26 #32168 * Dependency version updates * chore(deps): bump oras.land/oras-go/v2 from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 * chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.52.0 to 0.53.0 * chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.43.0 to 0.44.0 * chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.37.0 to 0.38.0

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References

* bsc#1266598

Cross-

* CVE-2026-39821

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2026-39821 ( SUSE ): 9.1

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

* CVE-2026-39821 ( SUSE ): 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

* CVE-2026-39821 ( NVD ): 9.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Micro 6.2

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-39821.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266598

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:22233-1
Release Date: 2026-06-21T00:43:12Z
Rating: important

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