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PYSEC-2021-346

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI / salt

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 3003.3

Fix pip install --upgrade 'salt>=3003.3'

References

https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/ [ADVISORY]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/ [WEB]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/ [WEB]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/ [WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xf37-qcvf-7m57 [ADVISORY]