FreeBSD : salt -- multiple vulnerabilities (50259d8b-243e-11eb-8bae-b42e99975750)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 142856
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Synopsis
The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.Description
SaltStack reports multiple security vulnerabilities in Salt 3002 :- CVE-2020-16846: Prevent shell injections in netapi ssh client.
- CVE-2020-17490: Prevent creating world readable private keys with the tls execution module.
- CVE-2020-25592: Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens along with their ACLs. Prior to this change eauth was not properly validated when calling Salt ssh via the salt-api. Any value for 'eauth' or 'token' would allow a user to bypass authentication and make calls to Salt ssh.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/3002.1.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 142856
File Name: freebsd_pkg_50259d8b243e11eb8baeb42e99975750.nasl
Version: 1.7
Type: local
Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks
Published: 11/12/2020
Updated: 12/5/2022
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 8.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.5
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Temporal Vector: E:H/RL:OF/RC:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25592
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: E:H/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py36-salt, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py37-salt, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py38-salt, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2020
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2020
CISA Known Exploited Dates: 5/3/2022
Exploitable With
Metasploit (SaltStack Salt REST API Arbitrary Command Execution)
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2020-16846, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-25592
CEA-ID: CEA-2020-0134