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Debian: Security Advisory for salt (DSA-5011-1)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update for the 'salt' package(s) announced via the DSA-5011-1 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 the oldstable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3. For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 3002.6+dfsg1-4+deb11u1. We recommend that you upgrade your salt packages.