SUSE Manager Salt Bundle: CVSS (Max): 7.7

May 7, 2024

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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

ESB-2024.2816
Security update for SUSE Manager Salt Bundle
7 May 2024

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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: SUSE Manager Salt Bundle
Publisher: SUSE
Operating System: SUSE
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2024-22231 CVE-2024-22232

Original Bulletin:
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2024/suse-su-20241525-1

Comment: CVSS (Max): 7.7 CVE-2024-22232 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)
CVSS Source: SUSE
Calculator: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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Security update for SUSE Manager Salt Bundle

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2024:1525-1
Rating: important
o bsc#1211649
o bsc#1211888
o bsc#1216850
o bsc#1218482
References: o bsc#1219001
o bsc#1219430
o bsc#1219431
o jsc#MSQA-760

o CVE-2024-22231
Cross-References: o CVE-2024-22232

o CVE-2024-22231 ( SUSE ): 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N
/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS scores: o CVE-2024-22232 ( SUSE ): 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N
/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected o SUSE Manager Client Tools for RHEL, Liberty and Clones 9
Products:

An update that solves two vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has five
security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

venv-salt-minion:

o CVE-2024-22231: Prevent directory traversal when creating syndic cache
directory on the master (bsc#1219430)
o CVE-2024-22232: Prevent directory traversal attacks in the master’s
serve_file method (bsc#1219431)
o Convert oscap output to UTF-8
o Make Salt compatible with Python 3.11
o Ignore non-ascii chars in oscap output (bsc#1219001)
o Fix detected issues in Salt tests when running on VMs
o Make importing seco.range thread safe (bsc#1211649)
o Fix problematic tests and allow smooth tests executions on containers
o Discover Ansible playbook files as ” .yml” or ” .yaml” files (bsc#1211888)
o Prevent exceptions with fileserver.update when called via state (bsc#
1218482)
o Improve pip target override condition with VENV_PIP_TARGET environment
variable (bsc#1216850)
o Fixed KeyError in logs when running a state that fails

Special Instructions and Notes:

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like
YaST online_update or “zypper patch”.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

o SUSE Manager Client Tools for RHEL, Liberty and Clones 9
zypper in -t patch SUSE-EL-9-CLIENT-TOOLS-2024-1525=1

Package List:

o SUSE Manager Client Tools for RHEL, Liberty and Clones 9 (aarch64 ppc64le
s390x x86_64)
venv-salt-minion-3006.0-1.36.3

References:

o https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-22231.html
o https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-22232.html
o https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211649
o https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211888
o https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216850
o https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218482
o https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219001
o https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219430
o https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219431
o https://jira.suse.com/browse/MSQA-760

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