PAM Authentication Bypass in SaltStack Salt by Salt Project
CVE-2022-22967

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Saltstack

Status
Saltstack Salt
Vendor
CVE Published:
23 June 2022

What is CVE-2022-22967?

A vulnerability has been identified in SaltStack Salt, where the PAM authentication mechanism inadequately handles the locking of user accounts. This flaw allows users with locked accounts to still execute Salt commands, both for those with local shell accounts having active sessions and for salt-api users authenticated via PAM eauth. This issue poses a significant risk as it could enable unauthorized command execution, thereby undermining the security integrity of the SaltStack deployment.

Affected Version(s)

SaltStack Salt SaltStack Salt prior to 3002.9, 3003.5, 3004.2

References

https://repo.saltproject.io/
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-securi...
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22
vendor-advisory

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

.