SaltStack Salt 'salt/utils/verify.py' CVE-2013-6617 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	63602
Class:	Unknown
CVE:	CVE-2013-6617
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Nov 05 2013 12:00AM
Updated:	Apr 13 2015 10:14PM
Credit:	Michael Scherer of Red Hat
Vulnerable:	SaltStack Salt 0.15.1 SaltStack Salt 0.15 SaltStack Salt 0.14 SaltStack Salt 0.13 SaltStack Salt 0.12 SaltStack Salt 0.11 SaltStack Salt 0.17.0
Not Vulnerable:	SaltStack Salt 0.17.1

SaltStack Salt 'salt/utils/verify.py' CVE-2013-6617 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Salt is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to bypass certain security restrictions and gain elevated privileges to the application.

Salt versions 0.11.0 through 0.17.0 are vulnerable.

SaltStack Salt 'salt/utils/verify.py' CVE-2013-6617 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

SaltStack Salt 'salt/utils/verify.py' CVE-2013-6617 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

SaltStack Salt 'salt/utils/verify.py' CVE-2013-6617 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

References:

• Drop suplimetary groups when running an non-root user (thatch45)
  
• Salt 0.17.1 Release Notes (SaltStack)
  
• SaltStack Homepage (SaltStack)