openSUSE Security Update : salt (openSUSE-2018-1574)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 119805

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for salt fixes the following issues :

- Crontab module fix: file attributes option missing (boo#1114824)

- Fix git_pillar merging across multiple __env__ repositories (boo#1112874)

- Bugfix: unable to detect os arch when RPM is not installed (boo#1114197)

- Fix LDAP authentication issue when a valid token is generated by the salt-api even when invalid user credentials are passed. (U#48901)

- Improved handling of LDAP group id. gid is no longer treated as a string, which could have lead to faulty group creations. (boo#1113784)

- Fix remote command execution and incorrect access control when using salt-api. (boo#1113699) (CVE-2018-15751)

- Fix Directory traversal vulnerability when using salt-api. Allows an attacker to determine what files exist on a server when querying /run or /events.
(boo#1113698) (CVE-2018-15750)

- Add multi-file support and globbing to the filetree (U#50018)

- Bugfix: supportconfig non-root permission issues (U#50095)

- Open profiles permissions to everyone for read-only

- Preserving signature in 'module.run' state (U#50049)

- Install default salt-support profiles

- Remove unit test, came from a wrong branch. Fix merging failure.

- Add CPE_NAME for osversion* grain parsing

- Get os_family for RPM distros from the RPM macros

- Install support profiles

- Fix async call to process manager (boo#1110938)

- Salt-based supportconfig implementation (technology preview)

- Bugfix: any unicode string of length 16 will raise TypeError

- Fix IPv6 scope (boo#1108557)

- Handle zypper ZYPPER_EXIT_NO_REPOS exit code (boo#1108834, boo#1109893)

- Bugfix for pkg_resources crash (boo#1104491)

- Fix loosen azure sdk dependencies in azurearm cloud driver (boo#1107333)

- Fix broken 'resolve_capabilities' on Python 3 (boo#1108995)

Solution

Update the affected salt packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 119805

File Name: openSUSE-2018-1574.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/20/2018

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python2-salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-cloud, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-fish-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-master, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-minion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-proxy, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-syndic, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:salt-zsh-completion, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15750, CVE-2018-15751

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