The salt-ssh minion code in SaltStack Salt 2016.11 before 2016.11.4 copied over configuration from the Salt Master without adjusting permissions, which might leak credentials to local attackers on configured minions (clients).

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

  - The salt-ssh minion code in SaltStack Salt 2016.11 before 2016.11.4 copied over configuration from the
    Salt Master without adjusting permissions, which might leak credentials to local attackers on configured
    minions (clients). (CVE-2017-8109)

An update of the salt package has been released.

This update for salt provides version 2016.11.4 and brings various fixes and improvements :

  - Adding a salt-minion watchdog for RHEL6 and SLES11     systems (sysV) to restart salt-minion in case of crashes     during upgrade.

  - Fix format error. (bsc#1043111)

  - Fix ownership for whole master cache directory.
    (bsc#1035914)

  - Disable 3rd party runtime packages to be explicitly     recommended. (bsc#1040886)

  - Fix insecure permissions in salt-ssh temporary files.
    (bsc#1035912, CVE-2017-8109)

  - Disable custom rosters for Salt SSH via Salt API.
    (bsc#1011800, CVE-2017-5200)

  - Orchestrate and batches don't return false failed     information anymore.

  - Speed-up cherrypy by removing sleep call.

  - Fix os_family grains on SUSE. (bsc#1038855)

  - Fix setting the language on SUSE systems. (bsc#1038855)

  - Use SUSE specific salt-api.service. (bsc#1039370)

  - Fix using hostname for minion ID as '127'.

  - Fix core grains constants for timezone. (bsc#1032931)

  - Minor fixes on new pkg.list_downloaded.

  - Listing all type of advisory patches for Yum module.

  - Prevents zero length error on Python 2.6.

  - Fixes zypper test error after backporting.

  - Raet protocol is no longer supported. (bsc#1020831)

  - Fix moving SSH data to the new home. (bsc#1027722)

  - Fix logrotating /var/log/salt/minion. (bsc#1030009)

  - Fix result of master_tops extension is mutually     overwritten. (bsc#1030073)

  - Allows to set 'timeout' and 'gather_job_timeout' via     kwargs.

  - Allows to set custom timeouts for 'manage.up' and     'manage.status'.

  - Use salt's ordereddict for comparison.

  - Fix scripts for salt-proxy.

  - Add openscap module.

  - File.get_managed regression fix.

  - Fix translate variable arguments if they contain hidden     keywords. (bsc#1025896)

  - Added unit test for dockerng.sls_build dryrun.

  - Added dryrun to dockerng.sls_build.

  - Update dockerng minimal version requirements.

  - Fix format error in error parsing.

  - Keep fix for migrating salt home directory.
    (bsc#1022562)

  - Fix salt pkg.latest raises exception if package is not     available. (bsc#1012999)

  - Timezone should always be in UTC. (bsc#1017078)

  - Fix timezone handling for rpm installtime. (bsc#1017078)

  - Increasing timeouts for running integrations tests.

  - Add buildargs option to dockerng.build module.

  - Fix error when missing ssh-option parameter.

  - Re-add yum notify plugin.

  - All kwargs to dockerng.create to provide all features to     sls_build as well.

  - Datetime should be returned always in UTC.

  - Fix possible crash while deserialising data on infinite     recursion in scheduled state. (bsc#1036125)

  - Documentation refresh to 2016.11.4

  - For a detailed description, please refer to :

  +     https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/20     16.11.4.html

  +     https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/20     16.11.3.html

  +     https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/20     16.11.2.html

  +     https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/20     16.11.1.html

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
434473	SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-xcx4-5wq7-g5g7)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
434473	SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-xcx4-5wq7-g5g7)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
121806	Photon OS 1.0: Salt PHSA-2018-1.0-0106	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
100907	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : Salt (SUSE-SU-2017:1581-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2017-8109

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

critical

high