CVE-2021-22004

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:saltconf 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.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.4

MODERATE

Vector

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

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.051

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-21996,CVE-2021-22004 are affected in VMware SALT 2019.2.8	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-22004 are affected in VMware SALT 3000.3	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-21996,CVE-2021-22004 are fixed in Python-salt 3003.3	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-21996,CVE-2021-22004 are fixed in Python-salt for linux 3003.3	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234