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.
When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salt | Saltstack | * | 2015.5.9 |
| Salt | Saltstack | 2015.8.0 | 2015.8.0 |
| Salt | Saltstack | 2015.8.1 | 2015.8.1 |
| Salt | Saltstack | 2015.8.2 | 2015.8.2 |
| Salt | Saltstack | 2015.8.3 | 2015.8.3 |
| Salt | Saltstack | 2015.8.4 | 2015.8.4 |
| Salt | Saltstack | 2015.8.5 | 2015.8.5 |
| Salt | Saltstack | 2015.8.7 | 2015.8.7 |
| Salt | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Salt | Ubuntu | trusty/esm | * |
| Salt | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Salt | Ubuntu | wily | * |