MEDIUM 5.0

GHSA-q27c-j6j9-53w3

Directory creation by malicious user in saltstack

Details

Syndic cache directory creation is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack in salt project which can lead a malicious attacker to create an arbitrary directory on a Salt master.

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Affected packages

PyPI / salt

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 3005.5

Fix pip install --upgrade 'salt>=3005.5'

PyPI / salt

Introduced in: 3006.0 Fixed in: 3006.6

Fix pip install --upgrade 'salt>=3006.6'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22231 [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e0cdb80b55123f4a024759ffcf2b3f0e0788e7ab [WEB]
https://github.com/saltstack/salt [PACKAGE]
https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2024-01-31-advisory [WEB]