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PYSEC-2021-50

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI / salt

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 2015.8.10

Fix pip install --upgrade 'salt>=2015.8.10'

References

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases [WEB]
https://www.saltstack.com/blog/active-saltstack-cve-announced-2021-jan-21/ [ARTICLE]
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/ [WEB]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/ [WEB]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/ [WEB]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/ [WEB]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01 [ADVISORY]
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162058/SaltStack-Salt-API-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html [WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxw3-765m-f37p [ADVISORY]