Debian DSA-4676-1 : salt - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 136372

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in salt, a powerful remote execution manager, which could result in retrieve of user tokens from the salt master, execution of arbitrary commands on salt minions, arbitrary directory access to authenticated users or arbitrary code execution on salt-api hosts.

Solution

Upgrade the salt packages.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u3.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/salt

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949222

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=959684

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/salt

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/salt

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 136372

File Name: debian_DSA-4676.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/7/2020

Updated: 12/6/2022

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11651

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2020

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/3/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Metasploit (SaltStack Salt Master/Minion Unauthenticated RCE)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17361, CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-11652

DSA: 4676

IAVA: 2020-A-0195-S