Description

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. The salt minion installer will accept and use a minion config file at C:\salt\conf if that file is in place before the installer is run. This allows for a malicious actor to subvert the proper behaviour of the given minion software.

Related CPE's

a

saltstack

salt

Vulnerable

o

microsoft

windows

-

o

fedoraproject

fedora

3

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/

https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/

PatchVendor Advisory

Weaknesses

[email protected]

Primary
CWE-362

CVSS impact metrics

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

6.4 · Medium

  • CVSS V3.1

  • CVSS V3.0

  • CVSS V2.0

Information

Source identifier

[email protected]

Vulnerability status

Modified

Published

2021-09-08T15:15:12.723

3 years ago

Last modified

2023-11-07T03:30:08.700

1 year ago