CVE-2013-6617

critical

Published 2013-11-05 · Modified 2024-04-30

CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2

10.0

VIR risk

10.0

Description

The salt master in Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.11.0 through 0.17.0 does not properly drop group privileges, which makes it easier for remote attackers to gain privileges.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	salt	`>=0.11.0,<0.17.1`	`0.17.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
saltstack	salt	`0.11.0`
saltstack	salt	`0.12.0`
saltstack	salt	`0.13.0`
saltstack	salt	`0.14.0`
saltstack	salt	`0.15.0`
saltstack	salt	`0.15.1`
saltstack	salt	`0.16.0`
saltstack	salt	`0.16.2`
saltstack	salt	`0.16.3`
saltstack	salt	`0.16.4`
saltstack	salt	`0.17.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.