SUSE SLES15: python3-salt / salt / salt-api / salt-bash-completion / salt-cloud / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:0506-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190657

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0506-1 advisory.

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2024-22231: Prevent directory traversal when creating syndic cache directory on the master (bsc#1219430)
- CVE-2024-22232: Prevent directory traversal attacks in the master's serve_file method (bsc#1219431)

Bugs fixed:

- Ensure that pillar refresh loads beacons from pillar without restart
- Fix the aptpkg.py unit test failure
- Prefer unittest.mock to python-mock in test suite
- Enable 'KeepAlive' probes for Salt SSH executions (bsc#1211649)
- Revert changes to set Salt configured user early in the stack (bsc#1216284)
- Align behavior of some modules when using salt-call via symlink (bsc#1215963)
- Fix gitfs '__env__' and improve cache cleaning (bsc#1193948)
- Remove python-boto dependency for the python3-salt-testsuite package for Tumbleweed

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 190657

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0506-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/17/2024

Updated: 6/25/2026

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-22232

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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: 2/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-22231, CVE-2024-22232

IAVA: 2024-A-0106-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0506-1

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