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GHSA-xf37-qcvf-7m57

Improper Authentication in SaltStack Salt

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2021-22004

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI salt < 3003.3 3003.3

Details

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

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.

References

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