diff --git a/shadow-4.6-salt-remove-rounds.patch b/shadow-4.6-salt-remove-rounds.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..48439be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shadow-4.6-salt-remove-rounds.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff --git a/libmisc/salt.c b/libmisc/salt.c
+index c72447ea..4940d76e 100644
+--- a/libmisc/salt.c
++++ b/libmisc/salt.c
+@@ -248,6 +248,10 @@ static /*@observer@*/const char *gensalt (size_t salt_size)
+ 		result[0] = '\0';
+ 	}
+ 
++	if (strstr(result, "rounds=") != NULL) {
++		result[3] = '\0';
++	}
++
+ 	/*
+ 	 * Concatenate a pseudo random salt.
+ 	 */
diff --git a/shadow-utils.spec b/shadow-utils.spec
index 6a15dc4..c9c1d5a 100644
--- a/shadow-utils.spec
+++ b/shadow-utils.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: Utilities for managing accounts and shadow password files
 Name: shadow-utils
 Version: 4.6
-Release: 21%{?dist}
+Release: 22%{?dist}
 Epoch: 2
 URL: http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/
 Source0: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/releases/download/v%{version}/shadow-%{version}.tar.xz
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ Patch65: shadow-4.6-useradd-check-if-subid-range-exists.patch
 Patch66: shadow-4.6-skip-over-reserved-ids.patch
 # https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/65c88a43a23c2391dcc90c0abda3e839e9c57904
 Patch67: shadow-4.6-gpasswd-fix-password-leak.patch
+Patch68: shadow-4.6-salt-remove-rounds.patch
 
 License: BSD and GPLv2+
 Group: System Environment/Base
@@ -203,6 +204,7 @@ Development files for shadow-utils-subid.
 %patch65 -p1 -b .useradd-check-if-subid-range-exists
 %patch66 -p1 -b .skip-over-reserved-ids
 %patch67 -p1 -b .gpasswd-fix-password-leak
+%patch68 -p1 -b .salt-remove-rounds
 
 iconv -f ISO88591 -t utf-8  doc/HOWTO > doc/HOWTO.utf8
 cp -f doc/HOWTO.utf8 doc/HOWTO
@@ -373,6 +375,9 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libsubid.la
 %{_libdir}/libsubid.so
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Nov 21 2023 Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com> - 2:4.6-22
+- salt: remove rounds from salt string. Resolves: RHEL-16668
+
 * Thu Nov  2 2023 Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com> - 2:4.6-21
 - login.defs: include SHA_CRYPT_MAX_ROUNDS. Resolves: RHEL-15024