Security update for salt

Announcement ID:	SUSE-SU-2025:4475-1
Release Date:	2025-12-18T12:08:22Z
Rating:	important
References:	bsc#1227207 bsc#1250520 bsc#1250755 bsc#1251776 bsc#1252244 bsc#1252285 bsc#1254256 bsc#1254257 jsc#MSQA-1034
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:	openSUSE Leap 15.3 SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

An update that solves two vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has six security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

• 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:

• 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)
• Improved SL Micro 6.2 detection with grains
• 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:

• openSUSE Leap 15.3
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-4475=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-4475=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-4475=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-4475=1
• SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7.1-2025-4475=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-4475=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-4475=1

Package List:

• openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
  • python3-salt-testsuite-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-master-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-ssh-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-proxy-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-syndic-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-doc-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-minion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • python3-salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-cloud-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-api-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
• openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch)
  • salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (aarch64 x86_64)
  • salt-master-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-ssh-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-proxy-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-syndic-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-doc-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-minion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • python3-salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-cloud-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-api-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (noarch)
  • salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
  • salt-master-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-ssh-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-proxy-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-syndic-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-doc-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-minion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • python3-salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-cloud-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-api-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS (noarch)
  • salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 (ppc64le x86_64)
  • salt-master-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-ssh-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-proxy-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-syndic-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-doc-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-minion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • python3-salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-cloud-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-api-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 (noarch)
  • salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
• SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 (aarch64 x86_64)
  • salt-master-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-ssh-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-proxy-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-syndic-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-doc-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-minion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • python3-salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-cloud-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-api-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
• SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 (noarch)
  • salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
  • salt-minion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • python3-salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
  • salt-minion-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1
  • python3-salt-3006.0-150300.53.101.1

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
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254256
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254257
• https://jira.suse.com/browse/MSQA-1034