win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before
    2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs. (CVE-2015-6941)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4769-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Salt allowed remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a special crafted     file. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a DoS or possibly execute arbitrary code. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2014-3563)

    Andreas Stieger discovered that Salt exposed git usernames and passwords in log files. An attacker could     use this issue to retrieve sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.
    (CVE-2015-6918).

    It was discovered that Salt exposed password authentication credentials in log files. An attacker could     use this issue to retrieve sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.
    (CVE-2015-6941)

    It was discovered that Salt allowed remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a special crafted     file. An attacker could use this

    issue to cause a DoS or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-12791, CVE-2017-14695, CVE-2017-14696)

    It was discovered that Salt allowed remote attackers to determine which files exist on the server. An     attacker could use this issue to extract sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
    (CVE-2018-15750)

    It was discovered that Salt allowed users to bypass authentication. An attacker could use this issue to     extract sensitive information, execute arbitrary code or crash the server. This issue only affected Ubuntu     16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-15751)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Salt release notes :

CVE-2015-6918 - Git modules leaking HTTPS auth credentials to debug log

Updated the Git state and execution modules to no longer display HTTPS basic authentication credentials in loglevel debug output on the Salt master. These credentials are now replaced with REDACTED in the debug output. Thanks to Andreas Stieger for bringing this to our attention.

CVE-2015-6941 - win_useradd module and salt-cloud display passwords in debug log

Updated the win_useradd module return data to no longer include the password of the newly created user. The password is now replaced with the string XXX-REDACTED-XXX. Updated the Salt Cloud debug output to no longer display win_password and sudo_password authentication credentials. Also updated the Linode driver to no longer display authentication credentials in debug logs. These credentials are now replaced with REDACTED in the debug output.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
434828	SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-cxm4-7qcw-267r)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
434828	SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-cxm4-7qcw-267r)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
183538	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Salt vulnerabilities (USN-4769-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	critical
86431	FreeBSD : Salt -- multiple vulnerabilities (3934cc60-f0fa-4eca-be09-c8bd7ae42871)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	Local	critical

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