Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere Affecting salt package, versions <2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.49% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-SALT-1583916
  • published 9 Sep 2021
  • disclosed 8 Sep 2021

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 salt to version 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt package and not the salt package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. A user who has control of the source, and source_hash URLs can gain full file system access as root on a salt minion.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

4.2 medium
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Red Hat

7.5 high