Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-6849-1: Risk of Remote Access in Salt Software
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June 25, 2024
Several security issues were fixed in Salt.
Summary
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Salt. Software Description: - salt: Infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus Details: It was discovered that Salt incorrectly validated method calls and sanitized paths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to access some methods without authentication. (CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-11652)
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Update Instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS salt-common 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro salt-master 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro salt-minion 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro After a standard system update you need to restart Salt to make all the necessary changes.
References
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6849-1
CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-11652
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