Bug 1445655 (CVE-2017-8109) - CVE-2017-8109 salt: Minion code copies over configuration from the Salt Master without adjusting permissions
Summary: CVE-2017-8109 salt: Minion code copies over configuration from the Salt Maste...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2017-8109
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: 1445661
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Reported: 2017-04-26 08:52 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:13 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: salt 2016.11.4
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Last Closed: 2017-04-26 12:33:12 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-26 08:52:15 UTC 
The salt-ssh minion code in SaltStack Salt copies over configuration from the Salt Master without adjusting permissions, which might leak credentials to local attackers on configured minions (clients).

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/40075

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/40609/commits/6e34c2b5e5e849302af7ccd00509929c3809c658

References:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.4.html
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-26 08:54:01 UTC 
Created salt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1418350]
Comment 2 Siddharth Sharma 2017-04-26 12:33:12 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-ssh is not used with these products.
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