Re: CVE request for saltstack minion identity usurpation

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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On 10/16/2013 12:20 AM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> 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

These issues re now public:

http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html


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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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