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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Salt vulnerabilities (USN-8153-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 306098

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8153-1 advisory.

 Zach Malone discovered that Salt did not properly handle permissions to cache data. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2015-8034) Dylan Frese discovered that Salt incorrectly allowed users to specify PAM service. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication. (CVE-2016-3176)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8153-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 306098

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8153-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/13/2026

Updated: 4/13/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-3176

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:salt-ssh, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:salt-syndic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:salt-master, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:salt-minion, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:salt-common

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/30/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8034, CVE-2016-3176

USN: 8153-1