GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-xf37-qcvf-7m57 Improper Authentication in SaltStack Salt
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-22004
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- salt
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
- Reviewed
- 2022-06-23
Affected packages
• PyPI salt: < 3003.3 → fixed in 3003.3
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
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-22004 An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22004 advisory
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xf37-qcvf-7m57 advisory
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2021-346.yaml web
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt package
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5 web
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT web
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ web
- https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02 web