SUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2026:20655-1 (helm)

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openSUSE-SU-2026:20655-1: moderate: Security update for helm
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openSUSE security update: security update for helm
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20655-1
Rating: moderate
References:

  * bsc#1248093
  * bsc#1261938



Cross-References:

  * CVE-2025-55199
  * CVE-2026-35206



CVSS scores:

  * CVE-2025-55199 ( SUSE ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  * CVE-2025-55199 ( SUSE ): 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  * CVE-2026-35206 ( SUSE ): 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
  * CVE-2026-35206 ( SUSE ): 4.8
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected Products:

         openSUSE Leap 16.0

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An update that solves 2 vulnerabilities and has 2 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for helm fixes the following issues:

Update to version 3.20.2.

Security issued fixed:

- CVE-2025-55199: specially crafted JSON Schema can lead to out of memory (OOM) termination
(bsc#1248093).
- CVE-2026-35206: specially crafted Chart will have contents extracted to immediate output
directory rather than to
  expected output directory suffixed by the Chart's name (bsc#1261938).

Other updates and bugfixes:

- Version 3.20.1:
  - chore(deps): bump the k8s-io group with 7 updates a2369ca (dependabot[bot])
  - add image index test 90e1056 (Pedro T\xf4rres)
  - fix pulling charts from OCI indices 911f2e9 (Pedro T\xf4rres)
  - Remove refactorring changes from coalesce_test.go 76dad33 (Evans Mungai)
  - Fix import 45c12f7 (Evans Mungai)
  - Update pkg/chart/common/util/coalesce_test.go 26c6f19 (Evans Mungai)
  - Fix lint warning 09f5129 (Evans Mungai)
  - Preserve nil values in chart already 417deb2 (Evans Mungai)
  - fix(values): preserve nil values when chart default is empty map 5417bfa (Evans Mungai)
- Version 3.20.0:
  - SDK: bump k8s API versions to v0.35.0
  - v3 backport: Fixed a bug where helm uninstall with --keep-history did not suspend previous
deployed releases #12564
  - v3 backport: Bump Go version to v1.25
  - bump version to v3.20
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.32.0 to 0.33.0
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.38.0 to 0.39.0
  - chore(deps): bump github.com/foxcpp/go-mockdns from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0
  - chore(deps): bump the k8s-io group with 7 updates
  - [dev-v3] Replace deprecated `NewSimpleClientset`
  - [dev-v3] Bump Go v1.25, `golangci-lint` v2
  - chore(deps): bump github.com/BurntSushi/toml from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0
  - chore(deps): bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.7.29 to 1.7.30
  - fix(rollback): `errors.Is` instead of string comp
  - fix(uninstall): supersede deployed releases
  - Use latest patch release of Go in releases
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.45.0 to 0.46.0
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.31.0 to 0.32.0
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.37.0 to 0.38.0
  - chore(deps): bump github.com/spf13/cobra from 1.10.1 to 1.10.2
  - chore(deps): bump github.com/rubenv/sql-migrate from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.44.0 to 0.45.0
  - chore(deps): bump github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.30.0 to 0.31.0
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.43.0 to 0.44.0
  - Remove dev-v3 `helm-latest-version` publish
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.36.0 to 0.37.0 1.7.28 to 1.7.29
  - Revert "pkg/registry: Login option for passing TLS config in memory"
  - jsonschema: warn and ignore unresolved URN $ref to match v3.18.4
  - Fix `helm pull` untar dir check with repo urls
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.42.0 to 0.43.0
  - chore(deps): bump github.com/gofrs/flock from 0.12.1 to 0.13.0
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.29.0 to 0.30.0
  - [backport] fix: get-helm-3 script use helm3-latest-version
  - pkg/registry: Login option for passing TLS config in memory
  - Fix deprecation warning
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.41.0 to 0.42.0
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.34.0 to 0.35.0
  - Avoid "panic: interface conversion: interface {} is nil"
  - bump version to v3.19.0
  - chore(deps): bump github.com/spf13/pflag from 1.0.7 to 1.0.10
  - fix: set repo authorizer in registry.Client.Resolve()
  - fix null merge
  - Add timeout flag to repo add and update flags
- Version 3.19.5:
  - Fixed bug where removing subchart value via override resulted in warning #31118
  - Fixed bug where helm uninstall with --keep-history did not suspend previous deployed releases
#12556
  - fix(rollback): errors.Is instead of string comp 4a19a5b (Hidde Beydals)
  - fix(uninstall): supersede deployed releases 7a00235 (Hidde Beydals)
  - fix null merge 578564e (Ben Foster)
- Version 3.19.4:
  - Use latest patch release of Go in releases 7cfb6e4 (Matt Farina)
  - chore(deps): bump github.com/gofrs/flock from 0.12.1 to 0.13.0 59c951f (dependabot[bot])
  - chore(deps): bump github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin d45f3f1
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.44.0 to 0.45.0 d459544 (dependabot[bot])
  - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.36.0 to 0.37.0 becd387 (dependabot[bot])
  - chore(deps): bump the k8s-io group with 7 updates edb1579
- Version 3.19.3:
  - Bump golang.org/x/crypto to v0.45.0
- Version 3.19.2:
  - [backport] fix: get-helm-3 script use helm3-latest-version 8766e71 (George Jenkins)


Patch instructions:

   To install this openSUSE security 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 16.0

   zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-16.0-661=1

Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

  helm-3.20.2-160000.1.1
  helm-bash-completion-3.20.2-160000.1.1
  helm-fish-completion-3.20.2-160000.1.1
  helm-zsh-completion-3.20.2-160000.1.1

References:

  * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-55199.html
  * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-35206.html