<div class="container">
<h1>Security update for salt</h1>
<table class="table table-striped table-bordered">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-SU-2025:4477-1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2025-12-18T12:10:19Z</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Rating:</th>
<td>important</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>References:</th>
<td>
<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227207">bsc#1227207</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250520">bsc#1250520</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250755">bsc#1250755</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251776">bsc#1251776</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252244">bsc#1252244</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252285">bsc#1252285</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254256">bsc#1254256</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254257">bsc#1254257</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/MSQA-1034">jsc#MSQA-1034</a>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
Cross-References:
</th>
<td>
<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62348.html">CVE-2025-62348</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62349.html">CVE-2025-62349</a>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>CVSS scores:</th>
<td>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-62348</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">7.3</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">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</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-62348</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">7.8</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-62349</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">7.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">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</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-62349</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">6.2</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L</span>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Affected Products:</th>
<td>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">Basesystem Module 15-SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">openSUSE Leap 15.5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">openSUSE Leap 15.6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">Server Applications Module 15-SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">Systems Management Module 15-SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">Transactional Server Module 15-SP6</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>An update that solves two vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has six security fixes can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for salt fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Security issues fixed:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>CVE-2025-62349: Added minimum_auth_version to enforce security (bsc#1254257)</p>
</li>
<li>CVE-2025-62348: Fixed Junos module yaml loader (bsc#1254256)</li>
<li>
<p>Backport security fixes for vendored tornado</p>
<ul>
<li>BDSA-2024-3438</li>
<li>BDSA-2024-3439</li>
<li>BDSA-2024-9026</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Other changes and bugs fixed:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed TLS and x509 modules for OSes with older cryptography module</p>
</li>
<li>Fixed Salt for Python > 3.11 (bsc#1252285) (bsc#1252244)<ul>
<li>Use external tornado on Python > 3.11</li>
<li>Make tls and x509 to use python-cryptography</li>
<li>Remove usage of spwd</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Fixed payload signature verification on Tumbleweed (bsc#1251776)</li>
<li>Fixed broken symlink on migration to Leap 16.0 (bsc#1250755)</li>
<li>Fixed known_hosts error on gitfs (bsc#1250520) (bsc#1227207)</li>
<li>Improved SL Micro 6.2 detection with grains</li>
<li>Reverted requirement of M2Crypto >= 0.44.0 for SUSE Family distros</li>
<li>Set python-CherryPy as required for python-salt-testsuite</li>
</ul>
<h2>Special Instructions and Notes:</h2>
<ul>
</ul>
<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
</p>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">
openSUSE Leap 15.5
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-4477=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
openSUSE Leap 15.6
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-4477=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-4477=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
Basesystem Module 15-SP6
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-4477=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
Server Applications Module 15-SP6
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP6-2025-4477=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
Systems Management Module 15-SP6
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Systems-Management-15-SP6-2025-4477=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
Transactional Server Module 15-SP6
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Transactional-Server-15-SP6-2025-4477=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2025-4477=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-4477=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-4477=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP5-2025-4477=1</code>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
<ul>
<li>salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-doc-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python311-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python311-salt-testsuite-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-cloud-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python3-salt-testsuite-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-ssh-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-master-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-proxy-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-syndic-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-api-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)
<ul>
<li>salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-doc-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python311-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-cloud-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python3-salt-testsuite-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-ssh-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-master-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-proxy-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-syndic-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-api-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)
<ul>
<li>salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-doc-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (noarch)
<ul>
<li>salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Server Applications Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-cloud-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-ssh-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-master-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-proxy-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-syndic-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-api-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Server Applications Module 15-SP6 (noarch)
<ul>
<li>salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Systems Management Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>python311-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Transactional Server Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
<ul>
<li>salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-doc-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python311-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-cloud-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-ssh-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-master-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-proxy-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-syndic-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-api-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 (noarch)
<ul>
<li>salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
<ul>
<li>salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-doc-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python311-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-cloud-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-ssh-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-master-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-proxy-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-syndic-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-api-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 (noarch)
<ul>
<li>salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-doc-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python311-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-cloud-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-ssh-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-master-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-proxy-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-syndic-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-api-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS (noarch)
<ul>
<li>salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 (ppc64le x86_64)
<ul>
<li>salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-doc-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python311-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-cloud-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-ssh-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-master-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-proxy-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-syndic-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-api-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 (noarch)
<ul>
<li>salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
<li>salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150500.4.65.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62348.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62348.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62349.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62349.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227207">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227207</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250520">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250520</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250755">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250755</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251776">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251776</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252244">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252244</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252285">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252285</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254256">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254256</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254257">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254257</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/MSQA-1034">https://jira.suse.com/browse/MSQA-1034</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>