openSUSE Salt Important DoS Fix Advisory SUSE-2026-2252-1
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June 3, 2026
An update that solves one vulnerability, contains one feature and has five security fixes can now be installed.
Summary
## This update for salt fixes the following issue: Security issues fixed: * CVE-2026-31958: python-tornado: parsing large multipart bodies with many parts can cause a denial of service (bsc#1259554). Other updates and bugfixes: * Use non vendored Tornado with Python 3.11 (bsc#1257583, bsc#1259700) * Harden Tornado from invalid HTTP reason phrases * Read full URI from ldap pillar config (bsc#1254900) * Make users with backslash work for `salt-ssh` (bsc#1254629). * Fixed `ansible.playbooks` `extra-vars` quoting (bsc#1257831), * Fixed `virtualenv` call in test helper to use proper Python version.
Topics Covered
References
* bsc#1254629
* bsc#1254900
* bsc#1257583
* bsc#1257831
* bsc#1259554
* bsc#1259700
* jsc#MSQA-1052
Cross-
* CVE-2026-31958
CVSS scores:
* CVE-2026-31958 ( SUSE ): 8.7
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
* CVE-2026-31958 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
* CVE-2026-31958 ( NVD ): 8.7
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
* CVE-2026-31958 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:
* openSUSE Leap 15.4
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:2252-1
Release Date: 2026-06-03T14:16:35Z
Rating: important
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