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SUSE: 2021:14832-1 Moderate: Client Tools Injection Issue

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2021
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SUSE Security Patch for Client Applications addresses a specific vulnerability, introduces a new enhancement, and includes corrections for better performance.
An update that solves one vulnerability, contains one feature and has three fixes is now available

Summary

This update fixes the following issues: salt: - Support querying for JSON data in external sql pillar - Exclude the full path of a download URL to prevent injection of malicious code (bsc#1190265, CVE-2021-21996) - Fix wrong relative paths resolution with Jinja renderer when importing subdirectories scap-security-guide: - Updated to 0.1.57 release (jsc#ECO-3319) - CIS profile for RHEL 7 is updated - initial CIS profiles for Ubuntu 20.04 - Major improvement of RHEL 9 content - new release process implemented using Github actions spacecmd: - Version 4.2.13-1 * Update translation strings * configchannel_updatefile handles directory properly (bsc#1190512) * Add schedule_archivecompleted to mass archive actions (bsc#1181223) * Remove whoami from the list of unauthenticated commands (bsc#1188977)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate patch SUSE Manager client tools injection issue

References

#1181223 #1188977 #1190265 #1190512 ECO-3319

Cross- CVE-2021-21996

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-21996 (SUSE): 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected Products:

SUSE Manager Ubuntu 18.04-CLIENT-TOOLS

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21996.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181223

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188977

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190265

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190512

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:14832-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate patch SUSE Manager client tools injection issue

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