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Gentoo GLSA-202310-22 High Severity: Salt Local Escalation Risks

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Calendar Grey October 31, 2023
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Gentoo Linux Advisory GLSA 202310-23 regarding Salt addressing critical local privilege escalation weaknesses.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt, the worst of which could result in local privilege escalation.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity security issue gentoo local privilege escalation software update salt

Resolution

All Salt users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/salt-3004.2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2020-28243 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28243 [ 2 ] CVE-2020-28972 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28972 [ 3 ] CVE-2020-35662 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35662 [ 4 ] CVE-2021-3144 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3144 [ 5 ] CVE-2021-3148 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3148 [ 6 ] CVE-2021-3197 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3197 [ 7 ] CVE-2021-21996 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21996 [ 8 ] CVE-2021-25281 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25281 [ 9 ] CVE-2021-25282 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25282 [ 10 ] CVE-2021-25283 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25283 [ 11 ] CVE-2021-25284 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25284 [ 12 ] CVE-2021-31607 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-31607 [ 13 ] CVE-2022-22934 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22934 [ 14 ] CVE-2022-22935 ...

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Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: Salt: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: October 31, 2023
Bugs: #767919, #812440, #836365, #855962
ID: 202310-22

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity security issue gentoo local privilege escalation software update salt

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt, the worst of which could result in local privilege escalation.

Background

Salt is a fast, intelligent and scalable automation engine.

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Affected Packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected -------------- ------------ ------------ app-admin/salt < 3004.2 >= 3004.2

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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