Re: CVE request for saltstack minion identity usurpation

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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On 10/15/2013 11:54 PM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> On 10/11/2013 04:26 PM, Michael Scherer wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > While looking for saltstack issues on github, i stumbled on this 
> > pull request : https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/7356
>
> > It seems that saltstack, a client/server configuration system ( 
> > like puppet, chef, cfengine ) allowed to have any minions (
> > agent on the server to be configured ) to masquerade itself as
> > any others agents when requesting stuff from the master ( ie,
> > main server ). While I didn't fully check, this would permit a
> > compromised server to request data from another server, thus
> > leading to potential informations leak ( like passwword, etc ).
>
> > Can a CVE be assigned, and I will pass it to upstream on the bug
> >  report ?
>
> Ok mmcallis@ researched these and found:
>
> CVE-2013-4435 saltstack Insufficient argument validation in
> several modules
>
> CVE-2013-4436 saltstack MITM ssh attack on salt-ssh
>
> CVE-2013-4437 saltstack Insecure usage of a predictable directory
> in /tmp and on minion (CVE MERGE of two tmp issues)
>
> CVE-2013-4438 saltstack pillar.ext or qemu_nbd.clear yaml string
> RCE

Argh. The above are currently embargoed, I misunderstood and thought
they were public (along with the following one). My apologies,
especially to upstream and users of saltstack. Adding saltstack info@
to the CC (can't find a security address).

> CVE-2013-4439 saltstack minion identity usurpation



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