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# Salt 3001.5 Release Notes

Version 3001.5 is a CVE fix release for 3001.

## Fixed

- CVE-2020-28243 - Fix local privilege escalation in the restartcheck module.

- CVE-2020-28972 - Ensure authentication to vcenter, vsphere, and esxi server validates the SSL/TLS certificate by default. If you want to skip SSL verification you can use verify_ssl: False.

- CVE-2020-35662 - Ensure the asam runner, qingcloud, splunk returner, panos proxy, cimc proxy, zenoss module, esxi module, vsphere module, glassfish module, bigip module, and keystone module validate SSL by default. If you want to skip SSL verification you can use verify_ssl: False.

- CVE-2021-3148 - Fix a command injection in the Salt-API when using the Salt-SSH client.

- CVE-2021-3144 - Fix eauth tokens can be used once after expiration

- CVE-2021-25281 - Fix salt-api so it honors eauth credentials for the wheel_async client.

- CVE-2021-25282 - Fix the salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method so it is not vulnerable to directory traversal.

- CVE-2021-25283 - Fix the jinja render to protect against server side template injection attacks.

- CVE-2021-25284 - Fix cmdmod so it will not log credentials to log levels info and error.

- CVE-2021-3197 - Fix ssh client to remove ProxyCommand from arguments provided by cli and netapi.