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Credential Exposure Affecting salt package, versions [,2016.11.4)

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    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
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Introduced: 11 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-8109 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-200 Open this link in a new tab

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