Information Exposure Affecting salt package, versions [,2015.8.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SALT-40358
  • published1 Aug 2017
  • disclosed3 Aug 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-8034  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

salt is a Portable, distributed, remote execution and configuration management system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The state.sls function in Salt before 2015.8.3 uses weak permissions on the cache data, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file.

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CVSS Scores

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