Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6849-1

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6849-1
June 25, 2024

salt vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

– Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Salt.

Software Description:
– salt: Infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus

Details:

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly validated method calls and
sanitized paths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to access
some methods without authentication. (CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-11652)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
salt-common 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
Available with Ubuntu Pro
salt-master 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
Available with Ubuntu Pro
salt-minion 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
Available with Ubuntu Pro

After a standard system update you need to restart Salt to make all the
necessary changes.

References:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6849-1
CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-11652