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SaltStack Salt Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information via cmdmod

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 22, 2024

Package

pip salt (pip)

Affected versions

< 2015.8.13
>= 2016.3.0, < 2016.11.5
>= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10
>= 2017.5.0, < 2017.7.8
>= 2018.2.0, <= 2018.3.5
>= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.8
>= 3000, < 3000.7
>= 3001, < 3001.5
>= 3002, < 3002.3

Patched versions

2015.8.13
2016.11.5
2016.11.10
2017.7.8
2019.2.8
3000.7
3001.5
3002.3

Description

An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt.modules.cmdmod can log credentials to the info or error log level.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 27, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Apr 22, 2024
Last updated Apr 22, 2024

Severity

Moderate
4.4
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.049%
(19th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-25284

GHSA ID

GHSA-r55w-xph5-xvx2

Source code

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