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FreeBSD: salt -- Insecure configuration of PAM external authentication service (CVE-2016-3176)

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FreeBSD: salt -- Insecure configuration of PAM external authentication service (CVE-2016-3176)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/17/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/28/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

SaltStack reports: This issue affects all Salt versions prior to 2015.8.8/2015.5.10 when PAM external authentication is enabled. This issue involves passing an alternative PAM authentication service with a command that is sent to LocalClient, enabling the attacker to bypass the configured authentication service.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-py27-salt

References

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