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ubuntu-cve-2023-34049

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2024-11-14 05:15

Modified

2026-04-08 12:28

Summary

Details

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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-34049	REPORT
	https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/202…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34049	REPORT

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-14 04:13 – Updated: 2024-11-14 15:20

Title

Salt security advisory release - 2023-OCT-27

Summary

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 · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-11-14 15:12 UTC

CWE

CWE-noinfo Not enough information

Assigner

vmware mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/202…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Salt	SALT	Affected: 3005 , < 3005.4 (oss) Affected: 3004 , < 3006.4 (oss)
salt_project	salt	Affected: 3005 , < 3005.4 (custom) Affected: 3004 , < 3006.4 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:salt_project:salt::::::::

Date Public

2023-10-28 04:08

Show details on NVD website

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