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Bug 563508 (CVE-2015-6941) - <app-admin/salt{5.6, 8.1}: win_useradd module and salt-cloud display passwords in debug log
Summary: <app-admin/salt{5.6, 8.1}: win_useradd module and salt-cloud display password...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2015-6941
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa]
Keywords:
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-10-19 14:51 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2016-07-19 10:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2015-10-19 14:51:36 UTC
From ${URL} :

A vulnerability in win_useradd, salt-cloud and Linode driver were found:

* win_useradd returned data including the password of the newly created user
* salt-cloud debug output contained win_password and sudo_password authentication credentials
* Linode driver displayed authentication credentials in debug logs

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/twangboy/salt/commit/c0689e32154c41f59840ae10ffc5fbfa30618710

External reference:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.1.html
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.5.6.html


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Elias Probst 2015-11-05 07:22:33 UTC
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/327

    app-admin/salt: Bumps to fix bug#563508 and CVE-2015-6941
    
    Gentoo-Bug: 563508
    CVE: CVE-2015-6941 - salt: win_useradd module and salt-cloud display passwords in debug log
    
    Package-Manager: portage-2.2.23
Comment 2 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-11-06 07:52:07 UTC
commit 0b662c556eab0c2468036e152473c2fba454ea21
Author: Elias Probst <mail@eliasprobst.eu>
Date:   Thu Nov 5 08:14:23 2015 +0100

    app-admin/salt: Bumps to fix bug#563508 and CVE-2015-6941
    
    Drop `salt-2015.5.0-archive-test.patch` from salt-2015.5.6.ebuild (upstream fix in @81a0d4c9)
    
    Gentoo-Bug: 563508
    CVE: CVE-2015-6941 - salt: win_useradd module and salt-cloud display passwords in debug log
    
    Package-Manager: portage-2.2.23
Comment 3 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-11-06 07:58:45 UTC
Tree is clean now


commit 8d979c150527855721e3838923313a1ea122f7d5
Author: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 08:58:19 2015 +0100
    
    app-admin/salt: Drop vulnerable versions
    
    Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563508
    
    Package-Manager: portage-2.2.23
    Signed-off-by: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>
    
    https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8d979c150527855721e3838923313a1ea122f7d5
Comment 4 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-07-19 10:36:01 UTC
Previous comments show the new versions that were committed to the tree and vulnerable versions that were dropped.  Upstream github verifies the patch is present in 5.6 and 8.1, thus future versions are good as well.

GLSA Vote: No