SUSE SLES15 Security Update : SUSE Manager Salt Bundle (SUSE-SU-2024:1518-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 195103

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1518-1 advisory.

venv-salt-minion:

- 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:

* Convert oscap output to UTF-8
* Make Salt compatible with Python 3.11
* Ignore non-ascii chars in oscap output (bsc#1219001)
* Fix detected issues in Salt tests when running on VMs
* Make importing seco.range thread safe (bsc#1211649)
* Fix problematic tests and allow smooth tests executions on containers
* Discover Ansible playbook files as '*.yml' or '*.yaml' files (bsc#1211888)
* Prevent exceptions with fileserver.update when called via state (bsc#1218482)
* Improve pip target override condition with VENV_PIP_TARGET environment variable (bsc#1216850)
* Fixed KeyError in logs when running a state that fails

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 venv-salt-minion package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 195103

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1518-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/7/2024

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: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 51.01

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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:venv-salt-minion

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: 5/6/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2024

Reference Information

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

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1518-1

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