Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-6941 - DEPRECATED: Information Exposure Through Debug Log Files vulnerability in Saltstack Salt 2015

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
saltstack
CWE-534
nessus

Summary

win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.

Nessus

NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_3934CC60F0FA4ECABE09C8BD7AE42871.NASL
descriptionSalt release notes : CVE-2015-6918 - Git modules leaking HTTPS auth credentials to debug log Updated the Git state and execution modules to no longer display HTTPS basic authentication credentials in loglevel debug output on the Salt master. These credentials are now replaced with REDACTED in the debug output. Thanks to Andreas Stieger for bringing this to our attention. CVE-2015-6941 - win_useradd module and salt-cloud display passwords in debug log Updated the win_useradd module return data to no longer include the password of the newly created user. The password is now replaced with the string XXX-REDACTED-XXX. Updated the Salt Cloud debug output to no longer display win_password and sudo_password authentication credentials. Also updated the Linode driver to no longer display authentication credentials in debug logs. These credentials are now replaced with REDACTED in the debug output.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id86431
published2015-10-19
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86431
titleFreeBSD : Salt -- multiple vulnerabilities (3934cc60-f0fa-4eca-be09-c8bd7ae42871)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(86431);
  script_version("2.4");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/10 11:49:44");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-6918", "CVE-2015-6941");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : Salt -- multiple vulnerabilities (3934cc60-f0fa-4eca-be09-c8bd7ae42871)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Salt release notes :

CVE-2015-6918 - Git modules leaking HTTPS auth credentials to debug
log

Updated the Git state and execution modules to no longer display HTTPS
basic authentication credentials in loglevel debug output on the Salt
master. These credentials are now replaced with REDACTED in the debug
output. Thanks to Andreas Stieger for bringing this to our attention.

CVE-2015-6941 - win_useradd module and salt-cloud display passwords in
debug log

Updated the win_useradd module return data to no longer include the
password of the newly created user. The password is now replaced with
the string XXX-REDACTED-XXX. Updated the Salt Cloud debug output to no
longer display win_password and sudo_password authentication
credentials. Also updated the Linode driver to no longer display
authentication credentials in debug logs. These credentials are now
replaced with REDACTED in the debug output."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.1.html"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/3934cc60-f0fa-4eca-be09-c8bd7ae42871.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?7ce87660"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  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_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py27-salt");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/10/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/10/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/10/19");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"py27-salt<2015.8.1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");