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CVE-2020-17490

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Date: November 6, 2020

The TLS module within SaltStack Salt through 3002 creates certificates with weak file permissions.

Language: Python

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (18)

Url: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/2019.2.6.rst#L10

Url: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3001.2.rst#L10

Url: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3000.4.rst#L10

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17490

Url: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3002.1.rst#L13

Url: https://github.com/saltstack/salt

Url: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/index.html#latest-branch-release

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA

Url: https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837

Url: https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/

Url: https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2020-105.yaml

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-17490

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

CWE-732

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version salt - 2015.8.13;salt - 2016.3.8;salt - 2016.11.10;salt - 2017.7.8;salt - 2018.3.5;salt - 2019.2.6;salt - 3000.4;salt - 3001.2;salt - 3002.1;salt - 2015.8.10

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	2.1
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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