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medium 5.3

CVE-2015-1839 json

SaltStack has insecure /tmp file handling in salt/modules/chef.py

published 2017-04-13 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-6grp-75pq-c8cj , PYSEC-2017-30 , EUVD-2017-0114

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

modules/chef.py in SaltStack before 2014.7.4 does not properly handle files in /tmp.

Patch / fix

  • pypi salt 2014.7.4

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-1839 updated cvss 3.7

salt: insecure /tmp file handling in salt/modules/chef.py

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2 salt
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi salt
<2014.7.4
2014.7.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-19 Data Processing Errors

References

Sources

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