Improper Access Control Affecting salt package, versions [,3000.4)[3001,3001.2)[3002, 3002.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SALT-1037602
  • published6 Nov 2020
  • disclosed6 Nov 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-17490  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade salt to version 3000.4, 3001.2, 3002.1 or higher.

Overview

salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. When using the functions create_ca, create_csr, and create_self_signed_cert in the tls execution module, it does not ensure the key was created with the correct permissions, creating keys with world-readable permissions.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1