SaltStack Salt Allows creating certificates with weak file permissions

Description

The TLS module within SaltStack Salt through 3002 creates certificates with weak file permissions.

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
medium
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Published (advisory)
2022-05-24 17:33:17 UTC
Updated
2024-10-22 14:54:10 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2024-04-22 22:24:34 UTC
NVD published
2020-11-06

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.06% 18.58%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
5.5 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.

Identifiers

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Affected packages (9)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
pip salt < 2015.8.13 2015.8.13
pip salt >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.8 2016.3.8
pip salt >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.10 2016.11.10
pip salt >= 2017.5.0, < 2017.7.8 2017.7.8
pip salt >= 2018.2.0, < 2018.3.5 2018.3.5
pip salt >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.6 2019.2.6
pip salt >= 3000, < 3000.4 3000.4
pip salt >= 3001, < 3001.2 3001.2
pip salt >= 3002, < 3002.1 3002.1

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence