Improper Access Control Affecting salt package, versions [,3005.4)[3006.0rc1,3006.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SALT-6141124
  • published1 Jan 2024
  • disclosed1 Jan 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Jan 2024

CVE-2023-34049  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade salt to version 3005.4, 3006.4 or higher.

Overview

salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. The Salt-SSH pre-flight option copies the script to the target at a predictable path, which allows an attacker to force Salt-SSH to run their script. If an attacker has access to the target VM and knows the path to the pre-flight script before it runs they can ensure Salt-SSH runs their script with the privileges of the user running Salt-SSH.

CVSS Scores

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