1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-6849-1

USN-6849-1: Salt vulnerabilities

Publication date

25 June 2024

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Salt.

Releases

Packages

  • 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)

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

After a standard system update you need to restart Salt to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
14.04 trusty salt-common –  0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2  
salt-master –  0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2  
salt-minion –  0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2  

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