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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6849-1
June 25, 2024
salt vulnerabilities
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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)
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