CVE-2023-34049 (GCVE-0-2023-34049)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-14 04:13 – Updated: 2024-11-14 15:20
VLAI
Title
Salt security advisory release - 2023-OCT-27
Summary
The Salt-SSH pre-flight option copies the script to the target at a predictable path, which allows an attacker to force Salt-SSH to run their script. If an attacker has access to the target VM and knows the path to the pre-flight script before it runs they can ensure Salt-SSH runs their script with the privileges of the user running Salt-SSH. Do not make the copy path on the target predictable and ensure we check return codes of the scp command if the copy fails.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Salt SALT Affected: 3005 , < 3005.4 (oss)
Affected: 3004 , < 3006.4 (oss)
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salt_project salt Affected: 3005 , < 3005.4 (custom)
Affected: 3004 , < 3006.4 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:salt_project:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Date Public
2023-10-28 04:08
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