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


Severity

0.0
medium
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-SALT-1080592
  • published 27 Feb 2021
  • disclosed 27 Feb 2021
  • credit Carlos

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
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Snyk

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

4.4 medium
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SUSE

5.5 medium
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Red Hat

4.1 medium