SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : salt (SUSE-SU-2021:0630-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 146904

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for salt fixes the following issues :

Fix regression on cmd.run when passing tuples as cmd (bsc#1182740)

Allow `extra_filerefs` as sanitized `kwargs` for SSH client

Fix errors with virt.update

Fix for multiple for security issues (CVE-2020-28243) (CVE-2020-28972) (CVE-2020-35662) (CVE-2021-3148) (CVE-2021-3144) (CVE-2021-25281) (CVE-2021-25282) (CVE-2021-25283) (CVE-2021-25284) (CVE-2021-3197) (bsc#1181550) (bsc#1181556) (bsc#1181557) (bsc#1181558) (bsc#1181559) (bsc#1181560) (bsc#1181561) (bsc#1181562) (bsc#1181563) (bsc#1181564) (bsc#1181565)

virt: search for `grub.xen` path

Xen spicevmc, DNS SRV records backports :

- Fix virtual network generated DNS XML for SRV records

- Don't add spicevmc channel to xen VMs

virt UEFI fix: virt.update when `efi=True`

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP2-2021-630=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python2 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Python2-15-SP2-2021-630=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-630=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 146904

File Name: suse_SU-2021-0630-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/1/2021

Updated: 11/9/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3197

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-master, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-standalone-formulas-configuration, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-cloud, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-syndic, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python2-salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-minion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-proxy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-ssh

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2021

Exploitable With

Metasploit (SaltStack Salt API Unauthenticated RCE through wheel_async client)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28243, CVE-2020-28972, CVE-2020-35662, CVE-2021-25281, CVE-2021-25282, CVE-2021-25283, CVE-2021-25284, CVE-2021-3144, CVE-2021-3148, CVE-2021-3197

IAVA: 2021-A-0112-S

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