Improper Authentication in SaltStack Salt
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Sep 4, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Sep 8, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Reviewed
Jun 23, 2022
Last updated
Sep 4, 2023
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.
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