Bug 1418345 (CVE-2017-5192) - CVE-2017-5192 salt: local_batch client external authentication not respected
Summary: CVE-2017-5192 salt: local_batch client external authentication not respected
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2017-5192
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1418350
Blocks: 1418348
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Reported: 2017-02-01 15:35 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:41 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: salt 2015.8.13, salt 2016.3.5, salt 2016.11.2
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Last Closed: 2017-02-10 07:48:32 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-02-01 15:35:30 UTC 
The LocalClient.cmd_batch() method client does not accept external_auth credentials and so access to it from salt-api has been removed for now. This vulnerability allows code execution for already-authenticated users and is only in effect when running salt-api as the root user.

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https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/releases/2015.8.13.html
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-02-01 15:41:58 UTC 
Created salt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1418350]
Comment 2 Siddharth Sharma 2017-02-10 07:43:57 UTC 
Mitigation:

Disable salt-api for mitigation.
Comment 3 Siddharth Sharma 2017-02-10 07:48:32 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of the salt as shipped with Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3, Red Hat Ceph Storage 2, and Red Hat Storage Console 2 as salt-api and salt-ssh are not shipped with these products.
Comment 4 Siddharth Sharma 2017-02-10 07:50:46 UTC 
Upstream Fixes:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/38743
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/38759
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