Information Exposure Through Debug Log Files Affecting salt package, versions <2015.8.1+ds-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.6% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-SALT-292624
  • published9 Aug 2017
  • disclosed9 Aug 2017

Introduced: 9 Aug 2017

CVE-2015-6941  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-534  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 salt to version 2015.8.1+ds-1 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.

win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.