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Ubuntu: USN-4459-1 (CVE-2020-11652): Salt vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4459-1 (CVE-2020-11652): Salt vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/30/2020
Created
08/18/2020
Added
08/15/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class allows access to some methods that improperly sanitize paths. These methods allow arbitrary directory access to authenticated users.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-salt-api
  • ubuntu-upgrade-salt-common
  • ubuntu-upgrade-salt-master
  • ubuntu-upgrade-salt-minion

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