Credential Exposure Affecting salt package, versions [,2016.11.4)


Severity

0.0
high
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-SALT-42127
  • published 3 Jun 2018
  • disclosed 11 Apr 2017
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade salt to version 2016.11.4 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Credential Exposure. It copied permissions over configuration from the Salt Master without adjusting, which might leak credentials to local attackers on configured clients.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

7.8 high
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Red Hat

5.5 medium