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Searching vulnerabilities affecting “saltstack”

35 vulnerabilities found for “saltstack”

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CVE-2022-22934
HIGH8.8

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. Salt Masters do not sign pillar data with the minion’s public key, which can result in attackers substituting arbitrary pillar data.

saltstack / salt+2
Adjacent
Published Mar 29, 2022
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CVE-2021-21996
HIGH7.5

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. A user who has control of the source, and source_hash URLs can gain full file system access as root on a salt minion.

saltstack / salt+6
Network
Published Sep 8, 2021
CVE-2021-22004
MEDIUM6.4

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. The salt minion installer will accept and use a minion config file at C:\salt\conf if that file is in place before the installer is run. This allows for a malicious actor to subvert the proper behaviour of the given minion software.

saltstack / salt+3
Local
Published Sep 8, 2021
CVE-2021-31607
HIGH7.8

In SaltStack Salt 2016.9 through 3002.6, a command injection vulnerability exists in the snapper module that allows for local privilege escalation on a minion. The attack requires that a file is created with a pathname that is backed up by snapper, and that the master calls the snapper.diff function (which executes popen unsafely).

saltstack / salt+3
Local
Published Apr 23, 2021
CVE-2021-25315
CRITICAL9.8

CWE - CWE-287: Improper Authentication vulnerability in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP 3; openSUSE Tumbleweed allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code via salt without the need to specify valid credentials. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP 3 salt versions prior to 3002.2-3. openSUSE Tumbleweed salt version 3002.2-2.1 and prior versions. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP 3 salt versions prior to 3002.2-3. openSUSE Tumbleweed salt version 3002.2-2.1 and prior versions.

saltstack / salt
Network
Published Mar 3, 2021
CVE-2021-3144
CRITICAL9.1

In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, eauth tokens can be used once after expiration. (They might be used to run command against the salt master or minions.)

saltstack / salt+20
Network
Published Feb 27, 2021
CVE-2021-25283
CRITICAL9.8

An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The jinja renderer does not protect against server side template injection attacks.

saltstack / salt+20
Network
Published Feb 27, 2021
CVE-2020-28243
HIGH7.8

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The minion's restartcheck is vulnerable to command injection via a crafted process name. This allows for a local privilege escalation by any user able to create a files on the minion in a non-blacklisted directory.

saltstack / salt+20
Local
Published Feb 27, 2021
CVE-2020-28972
MEDIUM5.9

In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, authentication to VMware vcenter, vsphere, and esxi servers (in the vmware.py files) does not always validate the SSL/TLS certificate.

saltstack / salt+20
Network
Published Feb 27, 2021
CVE-2021-25281
CRITICAL9.8

An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt-api does not honor eauth credentials for the wheel_async client. Thus, an attacker can remotely run any wheel modules on the master.

saltstack / salt+20
Network
Published Feb 27, 2021
CVE-2021-3148
CRITICAL9.8

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API can result in salt.utils.thin.gen_thin() command injection because of different handling of single versus double quotes. This is related to salt/utils/thin.py.

saltstack / salt+20
Network
Published Feb 27, 2021
CVE-2021-25282
CRITICAL9.1

An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method is vulnerable to directory traversal.

saltstack / salt+20
Network
Published Feb 27, 2021
CVE-2021-25284
MEDIUM4.4

An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt.modules.cmdmod can log credentials to the info or error log level.

saltstack / salt+20
Local
Published Feb 27, 2021
CVE-2021-3197
CRITICAL9.8

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt-api's ssh client is vulnerable to a shell injection by including ProxyCommand in an argument, or via ssh_options provided in an API request.

saltstack / salt+20
Network
Published Feb 27, 2021
CVE-2020-35662
HIGH7.4

In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, when authenticating to services using certain modules, the SSL certificate is not always validated.

saltstack / salt+20
Network
Published Feb 27, 2021
CVE-2020-16846
CRITICAL9.8

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt through 3002. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API, with the SSH client enabled, can result in shell injection.

saltstack / salt+18
Network
Published Nov 6, 2020
CVE-2020-17490
MEDIUM5.5

The TLS module within SaltStack Salt through 3002 creates certificates with weak file permissions.

saltstack / salt+15
Local
Published Nov 6, 2020
CVE-2020-25592
CRITICAL9.8

In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens. A user can bypass authentication and invoke Salt SSH.

saltstack / salt+15
Network
Published Nov 6, 2020
CVE-2020-11651
CRITICAL9.8

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class does not properly validate method calls. This allows a remote user to access some methods without authentication. These methods can be used to retrieve user tokens from the salt master and/or run arbitrary commands on salt minions.

saltstack / salt+9
Network
Published Apr 30, 2020
CVE-2020-11652
MEDIUM6.5

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.

saltstack / salt+12
Network
Published Apr 30, 2020