Bug 1273066 (CVE-2015-6941)

Summary:	CVE-2015-6941 salt: win_useradd module and salt-cloud display passwords in debug log
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	andrewniemants, ceph-eng-bugs, erik, herlo1
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	salt-2015.5.6, salt-2015.8.1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-11-20 09:08:17 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1273068, 1273069, 1273070, 1273071
Bug Blocks:	1273067

Description Adam Mariš 2015-10-19 13:56:09 UTC

A vulnerability in win_useradd, salt-cloud and Linode driver were found:

* win_useradd returned data including the password of the newly created user
* salt-cloud debug output contained win_password and sudo_password authentication credentials
* Linode driver displayed authentication credentials in debug logs

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/twangboy/salt/commit/c0689e32154c41f59840ae10ffc5fbfa30618710

External reference:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.1.html
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.5.6.html

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-10-19 13:59:27 UTC

Created salt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1273068]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1273070]

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2015-10-19 13:59:31 UTC

Created salt-cloud tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1273069]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1273071]