Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting salt-minion package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-SALTMINION-12243599
  • published30 Aug 2025
  • disclosed3 Nov 2020

Introduced: 3 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-17490  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 salt-minion.

NVD Description

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

The TLS module within SaltStack Salt through 3002 creates certificates with weak file permissions.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1