medium6.7
CVE-2023-34049
Salt preflight script could be attacker controlled
Impact
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. Do not make the copy path on the target predictable and ensure we check return codes of the scp command if the copy fails.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| pip | salt | < 3005.4 | 3005.4 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-10-27-advisory/
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4277-m35q-7c9w
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34049
- https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-10-27-advisory
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/286d55eb5a6e6bf9428405bdf5632b419bdf8444
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/7a14112f2a16ce70e3c3e1862c92e37af5f2c7a4