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PYSEC-2017-38

Quick fix

PYSEC-2017-38 — salt: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'salt>=2015.8.13'

Details

When using the local_batch client from salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2, external authentication is not respected, enabling all authentication to be bypassed.

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Affected packages

PyPI/salt

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2015.8.13

Fixpip install --upgrade 'salt>=2015.8.13'

References

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.2.html[WEB]
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/releases/2016.3.5.html[WEB]
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/releases/2015.8.13.html[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f2h7-4f84-8qrm[ADVISORY]