Data Handling in Fedora - CVE-2015-1839
Published: April 13, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU39199
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1839
CWE-ID: CWE-19
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Fedoraproject
Affected software:
Fedora
Fedora
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to read and manipulate data.
modules/chef.py in SaltStack before 2014.7.4 does not properly handle files in /tmp.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-1839
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175568.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212788
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2014.7.4.html
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/22d2f7a1ec93300c34e8c42d14ec39d51e610b5c
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/b49d0d4b5ca5c6f31f03e2caf97cef1088eeed81