Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts Affecting salt package, versions <0.15.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    3.95% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-SALT-292680
  • published 27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed 3 Dec 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 salt to version 0.15.1-1 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.

SaltStack RSA Key Generation allows remote users to decrypt communications

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

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