Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting salt package, versions [,0.17.1)


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.19% (57th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-SALT-174927
  • published 6 Jun 2019
  • disclosed 11 May 2013
  • credit Kurt Seifried

How to fix?

Upgrade salt to version 0.17.1 or higher.

Overview

salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Insecure usage of a predictable directory in /tmp and on minion allows any minion with an accepted key to send commands to the master as any other minion.