CVE-2022-22967

Summary

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.9, 3003.5, 3004.2. PAM auth fails to reject locked accounts, which allows a previously authorized user whose account is locked still run Salt commands when their account is locked. This affects both local shell accounts with an active session and salt-api users that authenticate via PAM eauth.

Impact & exploitability

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

• NVD record
• https://repo.saltproject.io/Advisory
• https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-release-june-21st-2022/%2C
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22Advisory