Improper Authentication Affecting salt-minion package, versions <2018.3.0-5.20.1
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- published14 Apr 2022
- disclosed20 Nov 2018
Introduced: 20 Nov 2018
CVE-2018-15751 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.0 salt-minion to version 2018.3.0-5.20.1 or higher.
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 SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.
SaltStack Salt before 2017.7.8 and 2018.3.x before 2018.3.3 allow remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands via salt-api(netapi).
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15751.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113698
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113699
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00070.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2017.7/topics/releases/2017.7.8.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2018.3.3.html
- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/salt-users/L9xqcJ0UXxs/qgDj42obBQAJ
- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/salt-users/dimVF7rpphY/jn3Xv3MbBQAJ
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00024.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/