CVE-2023-34049: Salt

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Salt Salt: from 3005, before 3005.4 (fixed in 3005.4); from 3004, before 3006.4 (fixed in 3006.4)
• Salt Project Salt: from 3005, before 3005.4 (fixed in 3005.4); from 3004, before 3006.4 (fixed in 3006.4)

Published 2024-11-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.