Security update for salt

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

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