| Name | CVE-2020-17490 |
| Description | The TLS module within SaltStack Salt through 3002 creates certificates with weak file permissions. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2480-1, DSA-4837-1, ELA-537-1 |
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 | fixed |
| 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 | jessie | 2014.1.13+ds-3+deb8u2 | | ELA-537-1 | |
| salt | source | stretch | 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u6 | | DLA-2480-1 | |
| salt | source | buster | 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u2 | | DSA-4837-1 | |
| salt | source | (unstable) | 3002.1+dfsg1-1 | | | |
Notes
https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/
https://gitlab.com/saltstack/open/salt-patches/-/raw/master/patches/2020/09/02/2018.3.x.patch (2018.3.x)
https://gitlab.com/saltstack/open/salt-patches/-/raw/master/patches/2020/09/02/2016.11.x.patch (2016.11.x)