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Ubuntu: USN-4769-1 (CVE-2017-14695): Salt vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4769-1 (CVE-2017-14695): Salt vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/24/2017
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation in SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-12791.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-salt-api
  • ubuntu-upgrade-salt-cloud
  • ubuntu-upgrade-salt-common
  • ubuntu-upgrade-salt-master
  • ubuntu-upgrade-salt-minion
  • ubuntu-upgrade-salt-proxy
  • ubuntu-upgrade-salt-ssh
  • ubuntu-upgrade-salt-syndic

References

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