CVE-2021-22004: 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…

PriorityP427medium6.4CVSS 3.1

AVLACHPRHUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.35%

27.2th percentile

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.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
saltstack	salt	< 3000.3	3000.3
saltstack	salt	>= 0 < 3003.3	3003.3

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.4MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.04.4MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

vendor_redhat6.4MEDIUM

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