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FreeBSD: VID-50259D8B-243E-11EB-8BAE-B42E99975750 (CVE-2020-16846): salt -- multiple vulnerabilities

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FreeBSD: VID-50259D8B-243E-11EB-8BAE-B42E99975750 (CVE-2020-16846): salt -- multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/04/2020
Created
11/17/2020
Added
11/13/2020
Modified
05/03/2022

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From VID-50259D8B-243E-11EB-8BAE-B42E99975750:

SaltStack reports multiple security vulnerabilities in Salt 3002:

CVE-2020-16846: Prevent shell injections in netapi ssh client.

CVE-2020-17490: Prevent creating world readable private keys with the tls execution module.

CVE-2020-25592: Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens along with their ACLs.

Prior to this change eauth was not properly validated when calling Salt ssh via the salt-api.

Any value for 'eauth' or 'token' would allow a user to bypass authentication and make calls

to Salt ssh.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-py36-salt
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-py37-salt
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-py38-salt

References

  • CVE-2020-16846
  • SUSE-SU-2020:3155-1
  • SUSE-SU-2020:3171-1

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