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CVE-2015-1838

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-19

Description

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

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 23
• VMware SALT: through 2014.7.3

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175568.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212784
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2014.7.4.html
• https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e11298d7155e9982749483ca5538e46090caef9c
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175568.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212784
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2014.7.4.html
• https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e11298d7155e9982749483ca5538e46090caef9c

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