saltstack/salt · Security
Salt preflight script could be attacker controlled
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-4277-m35q-7c9w
- CVE ID
- CVE-2023-34049
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.7 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 6.7 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
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.
CWEs
- CWE-340 · Generation of Predictable Numbers or Identifiers
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34049 ↗
- https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-10-27-advisory ↗
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/286d55eb5a6e6bf9428405bdf5632b419bdf8444 ↗
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/7a14112f2a16ce70e3c3e1862c92e37af5f2c7a4 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4277-m35q-7c9w ↗