7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.973 High
EPSS
Percentile
99.9%
Past security updates of Salt, a remote execution manager, introduced regressions for which follow-up fixes were published :
CVE 2020-16846 regression
‘salt-ssh’ master key initialization fails
CVE 2021-3197 regression
Valid parameters are discarded for the SSHClient
CVE 2020-28243 follow-up
Prevent argument injection in restartcheck
CVE 2021-25282 regression
pillar_roots.write cannot write to subdirs
CVE 2021-25284 regression
The ‘cmd.run’ function crashes if passing tuple arg
For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10.
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
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-2480-2. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(143512);
script_version("1.8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2022/12/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-16846", "CVE-2020-28243", "CVE-2021-25282", "CVE-2021-25284", "CVE-2021-3197");
script_xref(name:"CISA-KNOWN-EXPLOITED", value:"2022/05/03");
script_xref(name:"CEA-ID", value:"CEA-2020-0134");
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-2480-2 : salt regression update");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Past security updates of Salt, a remote execution manager, introduced
regressions for which follow-up fixes were published :
CVE 2020-16846 regression
'salt-ssh' master key initialization fails
CVE 2021-3197 regression
Valid parameters are discarded for the SSHClient
CVE 2020-28243 follow-up
Prevent argument injection in restartcheck
CVE 2021-25282 regression
pillar_roots.write cannot write to subdirs
CVE 2021-25284 regression
The 'cmd.run' function crashes if passing tuple arg
For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version
2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10.
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
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/salt"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/salt"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-3197");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'SaltStack Salt REST API Arbitrary Command Execution');
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-api");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-cloud");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-common");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-master");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-minion");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-proxy");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-ssh");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-syndic");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/11/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/01/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/12/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020-2022 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"salt-api", reference:"2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"salt-cloud", reference:"2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"salt-common", reference:"2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"salt-doc", reference:"2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"salt-master", reference:"2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"salt-minion", reference:"2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"salt-proxy", reference:"2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"salt-ssh", reference:"2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"salt-syndic", reference:"2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | salt-api | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-api |
debian | debian_linux | salt-cloud | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-cloud |
debian | debian_linux | salt-common | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-common |
debian | debian_linux | salt-doc | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-doc |
debian | debian_linux | salt-master | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-master |
debian | debian_linux | salt-minion | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-minion |
debian | debian_linux | salt-proxy | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-proxy |
debian | debian_linux | salt-ssh | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-ssh |
debian | debian_linux | salt-syndic | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:salt-syndic |
debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16846
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28243
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-25282
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-25284
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3197
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html
packages.debian.org/source/stretch/salt
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/salt
7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.973 High
EPSS
Percentile
99.9%