CVE-2021-22004

Summary

CVECVE-2021-22004
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-09-08 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:30:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Application Saltstack Salt All All All All
Application Saltstack Salt 3000.3 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: salt-3003.3-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: salt-3003.3-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: salt-3003.3-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Salt Security Advisory 2021-SEP-02 - Salt Project MISC saltproject.io
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: salt-3003.3-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: salt-3003.3-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: salt-3003.3-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 281892 Fedora Security Update for salt (FEDORA-2021-00ada7e667)
  • 281893 Fedora Security Update for salt (FEDORA-2021-93a7c8b7c6)
  • 376109 SaltStack Salt Minion Multiple Vulnerabilities
  • 501924 Alpine Linux Security Update for salt
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