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FreeBSD: VID-50259D8B-243E-11EB-8BAE-B42E99975750 (CVE-2020-25592): salt -- multiple vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
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8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Nov 4, 2020 | Nov 13, 2020 | Dec 16, 2020 |
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)

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