Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4676-1 salt -- security update

Date Reported:

06 May 2020

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 949222, Bug 959684.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-17361, CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-11652.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in salt, a powerful remote execution manager, which could result in retrieve of user tokens from the salt master, execution of arbitrary commands on salt minions, arbitrary directory access to authenticated users or arbitrary code execution on salt-api hosts.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u3.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your salt packages.

For the detailed security status of salt please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/salt