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high7.5

CVE-2022-22967

Salt's PAM auth fails to reject locked accounts

Impact

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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
pipsalt< 3002.93002.9

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
SaltstackSalt
before 3002.9
from 3003 before 3003.5
from 3004 before 3004.2

Weakness classification

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