HIGH7.7

PYSEC-2026-1891

Path traversal in saltstack

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-1891 — salt: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'salt>=3005.5'

Details

A specially crafted url can be created which leads to a directory traversal in the salt file server. A malicious user can read an arbitrary file from a Salt master’s filesystem.

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Affected packages

PyPI/salt

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 3005.5

Fixpip install --upgrade 'salt>=3005.5'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22232[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]
https://pypi.org/project/salt[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2qw3-2wv6-p64x[ADVISORY]