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SUSE: 2021:3553-1 Moderate Advisory for Salt Injection Threat

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2021
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SUSE unveils a significant upgrade for Salt addressing exploit vulnerabilities. Apply suggested updates to safeguard your infrastructure.
An update that fixes one vulnerability 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 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 Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2021-3553=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2021-3553=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS:

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Topics Covered

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References

#1190265

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 Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190265

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:3553-1
Rating: moderate

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