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.
Metrics
Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
Source | ID | Title |
---|---|---|
![]() |
EUVD-2021-0226 | 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. |
![]() |
GHSA-xf37-qcvf-7m57 | Improper Authentication in SaltStack Salt |
Fixes
Solution
No solution given by the vendor.
Workaround
No workaround given by the vendor.
References
History
No history.

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: vmware
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-03T18:30:23.738Z
Reserved: 2021-01-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-22004

No data.

Status : Modified
Published: 2021-09-08T15:15:12.723
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:49:25.440
Link: CVE-2021-22004


No data.