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SUSE: 2021:1693-1 Moderate: Command Injection in Manager Tools

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Calendar Grey May 21, 2021
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SUSE has released a security update to mitigate command injection vulnerabilities found in Manager Client Tools, which has been assessed with a moderate severity level.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available

Summary

This update fixes the following issues: salt: - Fix issue parsing errors in ansiblegate state module - Prevent command injection in the snapper module (bsc#1185281) (CVE-2021-31607) - Transactional_update: detect recursion in the executor - Add subpackage salt-transactional-update - Remove duplicate directories from specfile - Improvements on "ansiblegate" module (bsc#1185092): * New methods: ansible.targets / ansible.discover_playbooks * General bugfixes spacecmd: - Rename system migration to system transfer - Rename SP to product migration Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Manager Debian 9.0-CLIENT-TOOLS-BETA:

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References

#1185092 #1185281

Cross- CVE-2021-31607

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-31607 (NVD) : 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-31607 (SUSE): 7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Manager Debian 9.0-CLIENT-TOOLS-BETA

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-31607.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185092

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185281

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:1693-1
Rating: moderate

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