Bug 1810990 (CVE-2019-18897)
| Summary: | CVE-2019-18897 salt: symlink following in salt allows for privilege escalalation | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Michael Kaplan <mkaplan> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | david-dm.murphy, hvyas, itamar |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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A flaw was found in salt. A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in some implementations of Linux servers allows local attackers to escalate privileges from user salt to root.
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| Last Closed: | 2020-03-06 15:27:26 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1810991, 1810992 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1810993 | ||
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Description
Michael Kaplan
2020-03-06 11:04:54 UTC
Created salt tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-all [bug 1810992] Affects: fedora-all [bug 1810991] External Reference: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157465 Statement: Privilege escalation is due to no symlink validation check in %post script for "salt-master" where file ownership is changed to salt user. salt-master was used by Red Hat Storage Console 2 which has reached End Of Life. Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 does not use salt-master, in addition affected code is not included in the %post script for the version of salt shipped by Red Hat. |