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PYSEC-2021-73

Quick fix

PYSEC-2021-73 — salt: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'salt>=2015.8.10'

Details

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The minion's restartcheck is vulnerable to command injection via a crafted process name. This allows for a local privilege escalation by any user able to create a files on the minion in a non-blacklisted directory.

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Affected packages

PyPI/salt
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2015.8.10
Fixpip install --upgrade 'salt>=2015.8.10'

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