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Debian LTS: Security Advisory for salt (DLA-2815-1)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

2 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'salt' package(s) announced via the DLA-2815-1 advisory.

Insight

Insight

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt, a powerful remote execution manager, that allow for local privilege escalation on a minion, server side template injection attacks, insufficient checks for eauth credentials, shell and command injections or incorrect validation of SSL certificates.

Affected Software

Affected Software

'salt' package(s) on Debian Linux.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u7. We recommend that you upgrade your salt packages.