CVE-2015-6941

Summary

CVECVE-2015-6941
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-08-09 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2017-08-21 15:25:00 UTC
Descriptionwin_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-534

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Saltstack Salt 2015 5.0 All All All
Application Saltstack Salt 2015 5.1 All All All
Application Saltstack Salt 2015 5.2 All All All
Application Saltstack Salt 2015 5.3 All All All
Application Saltstack Salt 2015 5.4 All All All
Application Saltstack Salt 2015 5.5 All All All
Application Saltstack Salt 2015 8.0 All All All
Application Saltstack Salt 2015 5.0 All All All
Application Saltstack Salt 2015 5.1 All All All
Application Saltstack Salt 2015 5.2 All All All
Application Saltstack Salt 2015 5.3 All All All
Application Saltstack Salt 2015 5.4 All All All
Application Saltstack Salt 2015 5.5 All All All
Application Saltstack Salt 2015 8.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Replaced password with redacted when displayed · twangboy/salt@c0689e3 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Salt 2015.8.1 Release Notes CONFIRM docs.saltstack.com Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
1273066 – (CVE-2015-6941) CVE-2015-6941 salt: win_useradd module and salt-cloud display passwords in debug log CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Salt 2015.5.6 Release Notes CONFIRM docs.saltstack.com Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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