HIGH 7.8 PyPI
SaltStack Salt Information Exposure
GHSA-xcx4-5wq7-g5g7 · CVE-2017-8109 · PYSEC-2017-82
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Description
The salt-ssh minion code in SaltStack Salt 2016.11 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).
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8109
- WEB https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/40075
- WEB https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/40609
- WEB https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/40609/commits/6e34c2b5e5e849302af7ccd00509929c3809c658
- WEB https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035912
- WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-82.yaml
- PACKAGE https://github.com/saltstack/salt
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