SaltStack prior 2016.11.4 salt-ssh minion Credentials information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in SaltStack. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component salt-ssh minion. Performing a manipulation results in information disclosure (Credentials). This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2017-8109. The attack is only possible with local access. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in SaltStack. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code block of the component salt-ssh minion. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (Credentials). CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The salt-ssh minion code in SaltStack Salt before 2016.11.4 copied over configuration from the Salt Master without adjusting permissions, which might leak credentials to local attackers on configured minions (clients).

The bug was discovered 04/25/2017. The weakness was released 04/25/2017 as Bug 1035912 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.suse.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-8109 since 04/25/2017. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 100907 (SUSE SLES11 Security Update : Salt (SUSE-SU-2017:1581-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 2016.11.4 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (100907) and SecurityFocus (BID 98095†). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-107172. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Name: Credentials
Class: Information disclosure / Credentials
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 100907
Nessus Name: SUSE SLES11 Security Update : Salt (SUSE-SU-2017:1581-1)
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Upgrade: SaltStack 2016.11.4
Patch: github.com

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: Bug 1035912
Researcher: Andreas Stieger
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2017-8109 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-8109
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-100581
SecurityFocus: 98095 - SaltStack Salt CVE-2017-8109 Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability
OSVDB: - CVE-2017-8109 - SaltStack - Salt - Information Disclosure Issue

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Entryinfo

Created: 04/25/2017 22:46
Updated: 12/02/2022 10:32
Changes: 04/25/2017 22:46 (70), 09/21/2020 11:53 (6), 12/21/2020 13:55 (2), 12/02/2022 10:32 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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