GHSA-q27c-j6j9-53w3

Directory creation by malicious user in saltstack

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2024-22231

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	salt	< 3005.5	3005.5
PyPI	salt	>= 3006.0, < 3006.6	3006.6

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Syndic cache directory creation is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack in salt project which can lead a malicious attacker to create an arbitrary directory on a Salt master.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22231 advisory
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e0cdb80b55123f4a024759ffcf2b3f0e0788e7ab web
https://github.com/saltstack/salt package
https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2024-01-31-advisory web