| Name | CVE-2016-3176 |
| Description | Salt before 2015.5.10 and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.8, when PAM external authentication is enabled, allows attackers to bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command sent to LocalClient. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 819184 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| salt (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2014.1.13+ds-3+deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| salt | source | (unstable) | 2015.8.8+ds-1 | | | 819184 |
Notes
[jessie] - salt <no-dsa> (Minor issue; external_auth not by default usable)
external_auth seems not usable by default under Jessie due to the
permissions on /var/run/salt/master.
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.8.html
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.5.10.html
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/31826/commits/d73f70ebb289142e4f692359fe741a54f5d2ad65
Fixed in 2015.5.10/2015.8.8 upstream