CVE-2022-22967 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00504.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Saltstack Subscribe	Salt Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt::::::::
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	cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt::::::::

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Github GHSA	GHSA-fpxm-fprw-6hxj	Salt's PAM auth fails to reject locked accounts

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

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

History

Tue, 06 May 2025 08:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2022-06-22T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-05T16:28:14.931Z

Reserved: 2022-01-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-22967

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T03:28:42.506Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-06-23T17:15:12.080

Modified: 2025-05-05T17:17:54.853

Link: CVE-2022-22967

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-863

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