USN-8153-1

Zach Malone discovered that Salt did not properly handle permissions to cache data. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2015-8034) Dylan Frese discovered that Salt incorrectly allowed users to specify PAM service. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication. (CVE-2016-3176)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS / salt

Package

Name: salt
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/salt@0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm5?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm5

Affected versions

0.*

0.16.0-1

0.16.4-2

0.17.1+dfsg-1

0.17.2-1

0.17.2-2

0.17.2-3

0.17.4-1

0.17.4-2

0.17.5-1

0.17.5+ds-1

0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2

0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm4

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm5",
            "binary_name": "salt-common"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm5",
            "binary_name": "salt-master"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm5",
            "binary_name": "salt-minion"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm5",
            "binary_name": "salt-ssh"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm5",
            "binary_name": "salt-syndic"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro with Legacy support add-on: https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2015-8034",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "low",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-3176",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-8153-1.json"