SUSE-SU-2025:21218-1: important: Security update for salt

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# Security update for salt

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:21218-1  
Release Date: 2025-12-16T08:19:40Z  
Rating: important  
References:

  * bsc#1227207
  * bsc#1250520
  * bsc#1250755
  * bsc#1251776
  * bsc#1252244
  * bsc#1252285

  
Cross-References:

  * CVE-2025-62348
  * CVE-2025-62349

  
CVSS scores:

  * CVE-2025-62348 ( SUSE ):  7.3
    CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  * CVE-2025-62348 ( SUSE ):  7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  * CVE-2025-62349 ( SUSE ):  7.5
    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  * CVE-2025-62349 ( SUSE ):  6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

  
Affected Products:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.1

  
  
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has four fixes can now be
installed.

## Description:

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

salt:

  * Security issues fixed:

  * CVE-2025-62349: Added minimum_auth_version to enforce security (bsc#1254257)

  * CVE-2025-62348: Fixed Junos module yaml loader (bsc#1254256)
  * Backport security fixes for vendored tornado

    * BDSA-2024-3438
    * BDSA-2024-3439
    * BDSA-2024-9026
  * Other changes and bugs fixed:

  * Added `minion_legacy_req_warnings` option to avoid noisy warnings

  * Fixed TLS and x509 modules for OSes with older cryptography module
  * Fixed Salt for Python > 3.11 (bsc#1252285) (bsc#1252244)
    * Use external tornado on Python > 3.11
    * Make tls and x509 to use python-cryptography
    * Remove usage of spwd
  * Fixed payload signature verification on Tumbleweed (bsc#1251776)
  * Fixed broken symlink on migration to Leap 16.0 (bsc#1250755)
  * Fixed known_hosts error on gitfs (bsc#1250520) (bsc#1227207)
  * Fixed functional.states.test_user for SLES 16 and Micro systems
  * Fixed the tests failing on AlmaLinux 10 and other clones
  * Improved SL Micro 6.2 detection with grains
  * Require Python dependencies only for used Python version
  * Reverted requirement of M2Crypto >= 0.44.0 for SUSE Family distros
  * Set python-CherryPy as required for python-salt-testsuite

## Special Instructions and Notes:

## 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-6.1-350=1

## Package List:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    * python311-salt-3006.0-slfo.1.1_5.1
    * salt-transactional-update-3006.0-slfo.1.1_5.1
    * salt-3006.0-slfo.1.1_5.1
    * salt-minion-3006.0-slfo.1.1_5.1

## References:

  * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62348.html
  * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62349.html
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227207
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250520
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250755
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251776
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252244
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252285

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