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Salt uses weak permissions on the cache data

Low severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 21, 2024

Package

pip salt (pip)

Affected versions

< 2015.8.3

Patched versions

2015.8.3

Description

The state.sls function in Salt before 2015.8.3 uses weak permissions on the cache data, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 30, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Apr 29, 2024
Last updated Oct 21, 2024

Severity

Low

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2015-8034

GHSA ID

GHSA-6prw-8xhm-h247

Source code

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