SUSE SLES15 Security Update : salt (SUSE-SU-2025:4475-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 279372

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4475-1 advisory.

- 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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 279372

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4475-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/19/2025

Updated: 1/9/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-62348

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-transactional-update, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-fish-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-proxy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-minion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-cloud, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-standalone-formulas-configuration, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-syndic, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-doc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-zsh-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-master

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-62348, CVE-2025-62349

IAVA: 2026-A-0021

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4475-1

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