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CVE-2015-1839

Impact:: Moderate
Public Date:: 2015-03-25
CWE:: CWE-377

Bugzilla:: 1212788: CVE-2015-1839 salt: insecure /tmp file handling in salt/modules/chef.py

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

modules/chef.py in SaltStack before 2014.7.4 does not properly handle files in /tmp.

Find out more about CVE-2015-1839 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect versions of salt as shipped with Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage as they did not include the vulnerable module.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score	3.7
Base Metrics	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).

Affected Packages State

Platform	Package	State
Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2	salt	Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Michael Scherer of Red Hat for reporting this issue.

External References

http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2014.7.4.html

Last Modified 2018-04-28T11:21:36+00:00

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