SUSE SLES15: python3-salt / salt / salt-api / salt-bash-completion / salt-cloud / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:4390-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185445

Language:

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4390-1 advisory.

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2023-34049: arbitrary code execution via symlink attack (bsc#1215157)

Bugs fixed:

- Fix optimization_order opt to prevent testsuite fails
- Improve salt.utils.json.find_json to avoid fails (bsc#1213293)
- Use salt-call from salt bundle with transactional_update
- Only call native_str on curl_debug message in tornado when needed
- Implement the calling for batch async from the salt CLI
- Fix calculation of SLS context vars when trailing dots on targetted sls/state (bsc#1213518)
- Rename salt-tests to python3-salt-testsuite
- CVE-2023-34049: arbitrary code execution via symlink attack (bsc#1215157)
- Allow all primitive grain types for autosign_grains (bsc#1214477)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185445

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4390-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/10/2023

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-34049

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/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:suse_linux:salt-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-transactional-update, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-minion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-proxy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-zsh-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-master, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-standalone-formulas-configuration, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-cloud, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-syndic, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-fish-completion

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-34049

IAVA: 2023-A-0609-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4390-1

Detections

Analytics