Bug 1320865 (CVE-2016-3176)

Summary:	CVE-2016-3176 salt: insecure configuration of PAM external authentication service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
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, carnil, ceph-eng-bugs, erik, herlo1, sisharma
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	salt 2015.5.10	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On:	1320867, 1320868, 1320869
Bug Blocks:	1368051

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-03-24 08:50:16 UTC

This issue involves passing an alternative PAM authentication service with a command that is sent to LocalClient, enabling the attacker to bypass the configured authentication service.

External references:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.5.10.html
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.8.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-03-24 08:52:31 UTC

Created salt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1320867]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1320868]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1320869]