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Debian DLA-2294-1 : salt security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 139094

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Two issues have been found in salt, a remote manager to administer servers.

These issues are related to remote hackers bypassing authentication to execute arbitrary commands and getting informations about files on the server

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your salt packages.

For the detailed security status of salt please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/salt

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00024.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/salt

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/salt

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 139094

File Name: debian_DLA-2294.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/30/2020

Updated: 2/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15751

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-master, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-proxy, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-api, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-ssh, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-minion, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-syndic, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-cloud

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15750, CVE-2018-15751