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Alpine: multiple salt packages: security update to 2016.11.2-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 407038

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - 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. (CVE-2017-5192)

 - Salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2
 allows arbitrary command execution on a salt-master via Salt's ssh_client. (CVE-2017-5200)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-5192

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-5200

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 407038

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 3/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5200

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5192, CVE-2017-5200