Debian: DLA-2480-1 Moderate: Shell Injection in Salt API

CVE-2020-16846

An unauthenticated user with network access to the Salt API can use
shell injections to run code on the Salt-API using the SSH client

CVE-2020-17490

When using the functions create_ca, create_csr, and
create_self_signed_cert in the tls execution module, it would not
ensure the key was created with the correct permissions.

CVE-2020-25592

Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens along with their Access
Control Lists – 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

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version
2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your salt packages.

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