CVE-2023-34049

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.

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References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Other references

• https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-10-27-advisory/index.html
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34049