Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-18897
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of salt of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15; openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to escalate privileges from user salt to root. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 salt-master version 2019.2.0-46.83.1 and prior versions. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 salt-master version 2019.2.0-6.21.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory salt-master version 2019.2.2-3.1 and prior versions.
Vulnerable Configurations
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Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2020-0684-1.NASL description This update for salt fixes the following issues : Avoid possible user escalation upgrading salt-master (bsc#1157465) (CVE-2019-18897) Fix unit tests failures in test_batch_async tests Batch Async: Handle exceptions, properly unregister and close instances after running async batching to avoid CPU starvation of the MWorkers (bsc#1162327) RHEL/CentOS 8 uses platform-python instead of python3 New configuration option for selection of grains in the minion start event. Fix last seen 2020-03-19 modified 2020-03-16 plugin id 134622 published 2020-03-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134622 title SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : salt (SUSE-SU-2020:0684-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2020:0684-1. # The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(134622); script_version("1.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/18"); script_cve_id("CVE-2019-17361", "CVE-2019-18897"); script_name(english:"SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : salt (SUSE-SU-2020:0684-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for salt fixes the following issues : Avoid possible user escalation upgrading salt-master (bsc#1157465) (CVE-2019-18897) Fix unit tests failures in test_batch_async tests Batch Async: Handle exceptions, properly unregister and close instances after running async batching to avoid CPU starvation of the MWorkers (bsc#1162327) RHEL/CentOS 8 uses platform-python instead of python3 New configuration option for selection of grains in the minion start event. Fix 'os_family' grain for Astra Linux Common Edition Fix for salt-api NET API where unauthenticated attacker could run arbitrary code (CVE-2019-17361) (bsc#1162504) Adds disabled parameter to mod_repo in aptpkg module Move token with atomic operation Bad API token files get deleted (bsc#1160931) Support for Btrfs and XFS in parted and mkfs added Adds list_downloaded for apt Module to enable pre-downloading support Adds virt.(pool|network)_get_xml functions Various libvirt updates : - Add virt.pool_capabilities function - virt.pool_running improvements - Add virt.pool_deleted state - virt.network_define allow adding IP configuration virt: adding kernel boot parameters to libvirt xml Fix to scheduler when data['run'] does not exist (bsc#1159118) Fix virt states to not fail on VMs already stopped Fix applying of attributes for returner rawfile_json (bsc#1158940) xfs: do not fail if type is not present (bsc#1153611) Fix errors when running virt.get_hypervisor function Align virt.full_info fixes with upstream Salt Fix for log checking in x509 test Read repo info without using interpolation (bsc#1135656) Limiting M2Crypto to >= SLE15 Replacing pycrypto with M2Crypto (bsc#1165425) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. 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Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product : SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP1-2020-684=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python2 15-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Python2-15-SP1-2020-684=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2020-684=1" ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-18897"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python2-salt"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-salt"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-api"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-cloud"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-doc"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-master"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-minion"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-proxy"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-ssh"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-standalone-formulas-configuration"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-syndic"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/01/17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/03/13"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/03/16"); 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 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! 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NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2020-357.NASL description This update for salt fixes the following issues : - Avoid possible user escalation upgrading salt-master (bsc#1157465) (CVE-2019-18897) - Fix unit tests failures in test_batch_async tests - Batch Async: Handle exceptions, properly unregister and close instances after running async batching to avoid CPU starvation of the MWorkers (bsc#1162327) - RHEL/CentOS 8 uses platform-python instead of python3 - New configuration option for selection of grains in the minion start event. - Fix last seen 2020-03-24 modified 2020-03-19 plugin id 134696 published 2020-03-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134696 title openSUSE Security Update : salt (openSUSE-2020-357) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2020-357. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); 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