Sensitive Data Exposure Affecting salt package, versions [3002rc1,3002.5)[3001rc1,3001.6)[,3000.8)


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-1080592
  • published27 Feb 2021
  • disclosed27 Feb 2021
  • creditCarlos

Introduced: 27 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-25284  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-532  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade salt to version 3002.5, 3001.6, 3000.8 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 Sensitive Data Exposure webutils write passwords in cleartext to /var/log/salt/minion.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1