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CVE-2021-22004

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.4 · CWE-362
6.4CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredHigh
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

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

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

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