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Moderate EPSS: 0.00167% (0.3848 Percentile) EPSS:

Salt Insecure configuration of PAM external authentication service

Affected Packages Affected Versions Fixed Versions
pypi:salt >= 2015.8, < 2015.8.8, < 2015.5.10 2015.8.8, 2015.5.10
34 Dependent packages
428 Dependent repositories
52,414 Downloads last month

Affected Version Ranges

All affected versions

0.8.7, 0.8.9, 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5, 0.9.6, 0.9.7, 0.9.8, 0.9.9, 0.10.0, 0.10.1, 0.10.2, 0.10.3, 0.10.4, 0.10.5, 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 0.12.0, 0.12.1, 0.13.0, 0.13.1, 0.13.2, 0.13.3, 0.14.0, 0.14.1, 0.15.0, 0.15.1, 0.15.2, 0.15.3, 0.15.90, 0.16.0, 0.16.1, 0.16.2, 0.16.3, 0.16.4, 0.17.0, 0.17.1, 0.17.2, 0.17.3, 0.17.4, 0.17.5, 2014.1.0, 2014.1.1, 2014.1.2, 2014.1.3, 2014.1.4, 2014.1.5, 2014.1.6, 2014.1.7, 2014.1.8, 2014.1.9, 2014.1.10, 2014.1.11, 2014.1.12, 2014.1.13, 2014.7.0, 2014.7.1, 2014.7.2, 2014.7.3, 2014.7.4, 2014.7.5, 2014.7.6, 2014.7.7, 2015.5.0, 2015.5.1, 2015.5.2, 2015.5.3, 2015.5.4, 2015.5.5, 2015.5.6, 2015.5.7, 2015.5.8, 2015.5.9, 2015.8.0, 2015.8.1, 2015.8.2, 2015.8.3, 2015.8.4, 2015.8.5, 2015.8.7

All unaffected versions

2015.5.10, 2015.5.11, 2015.8.8, 2015.8.9, 2015.8.10, 2015.8.11, 2015.8.12, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.0, 2016.3.1, 2016.3.2, 2016.3.3, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.5, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.7, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.0, 2016.11.1, 2016.11.2, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.4, 2016.11.5, 2016.11.6, 2016.11.7, 2016.11.8, 2016.11.9, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.0, 2017.7.1, 2017.7.2, 2017.7.3, 2017.7.4, 2017.7.5, 2017.7.6, 2017.7.7, 2017.7.8, 2018.3.0, 2018.3.1, 2018.3.2, 2018.3.3, 2018.3.4, 2018.3.5, 2019.2.0, 2019.2.1, 2019.2.2, 2019.2.3, 2019.2.4, 2019.2.5, 2019.2.6, 2019.2.7, 2019.2.8

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.

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