Information Exposure Through Log Files Affecting salt package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.24% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-SALT-9886602
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed12 Sept 2015

Introduced: 12 Sep 2015

CVE-2015-6941  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-532  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 salt.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt package and not the salt package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.