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PYSEC-2017-33

Quick fix

PYSEC-2017-33 — salt: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'salt>=2015.5.10'

Details

Salt before 2015.5.10 and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.8, when PAM external authentication is enabled, allows attackers to bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command sent to LocalClient.

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Affected packages

PyPI/salt

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2015.5.10

Fixpip install --upgrade 'salt>=2015.5.10'

References

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.8.html[WEB]
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.5.10.html[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v2rp-9cpj-pfw2[ADVISORY]