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GHSA-4277-m35q-7c9w

Salt preflight script could be attacker controlled

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI / salt
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 3005.4
Fix pip install --upgrade 'salt>=3005.4'
PyPI / salt
Introduced in: 3006.0rc1 Fixed in: 3006.4
Fix pip install --upgrade 'salt>=3006.4'

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