Salt

Security

- Sign authentication replies to prevent MiTM (cve-2020-22935)
- Sign pillar data to prevent MiTM attacks. (cve-2022-22934)
- Prevent job and fileserver replays (cve-2022-22936)
- Fixed targeting bug, especially visible when using syndic and user auth. (CVE-2022-22941) (60413)

Fixed

- Verify the owner of an existing config before trusting it during install. If the owner cannot be verified, back it up and use defaults. (CVE-2021-22004)


Security

- Fix the CVE-2021-31607 vulnerability
Additionally, an audit and a tool was put in place, ``bandit``, to address similar issues througout the code base, and prevent them. (CVE-2021-31607)
- Ensure that sourced file is cached using its hash name (cve-2021-21996)

Changed

- Store git sha in salt/_version.py when installing from a tag so it can be found if needed later. (59137)


Fixed

- Fix argument injection bug in restartcheck.restartcheck. This change hardens
the fix for CVE-2020-28243. (200)
- Allow "extra_filerefs" as sanitized kwargs for SSH client.
Fix regression on "cmd.run" when passing tuples as cmd. (59664)
- Allow all ssh kwargs as sanitized kwargs for SSH client. (59748)

Fixed

- Tests and fix for CVE-2021-25283

Fixed

- Fix runners that broke when patching for CVE-2021-25281
- Fix issue with runners in SSE

Fixed

- CVE-2020-28243 - Fix local privilege escalation in the restartcheck module. (CVE-2020-28243)
- CVE-2020-28972 - Ensure authentication to vcenter, vsphere, and esxi server
validates the SSL/TLS certificate by default. If you want to skip SSL verification
you can use `verify_ssl: False`. (CVE-2020-28972)
- CVE-2020-35662 - Ensure the asam runner, qingcloud, splunk returner, panos
proxy, cimc proxy, zenoss module, esxi module, vsphere module, glassfish
module, bigip module, and keystone module validate SSL by default. If you want
to skip SSL verification you can use `verify_ssl: False`. (CVE-2020-35662)
- CVE-2021-25281 - Fix salt-api so it honors eauth credentials for the
wheel_async client. (CVE-2021-25281)
- CVE-2021-25282 - Fix the salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method so it is not
vulnerable to directory traversal. (CVE-2021-25282)
- CVE-2021-25283 - Fix the jinja render to protect against server side template
injection attacks. (CVE-2021-25283)
- CVE-2021-25284 - Fix cmdmod so it will not log credentials to log levels info
and error. (CVE-2021-25284)
- CVE-2021-3144 - Fix eauth tokens can be used once after expiration. (CVE-2021-3144)
- CVE-2021-3148 - Fix a command injection in the Salt-API when using the Salt-SSH client. (CVE-2021-3148)
- CVE-2021-3197 - Fix ssh client to remove ProxyCommand from arguments provided
by cli and netapi. (CVE-2021-3197)