Access Restriction Bypass Affecting salt package, versions <0.17.1+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.17% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-SALT-292692
  • published 5 Nov 2013
  • disclosed 5 Nov 2013

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 salt to version 0.17.1+dfsg-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.

Salt (aka SaltStack) before 0.15.0 through 0.17.0 allows remote authenticated minions to impersonate arbitrary minions via a crafted minion with a valid key.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

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