SaltStack Salt CVE-2021-22004 Race Condition Vulnerability

Description

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. The salt minion installer will accept and use a minion config file at C:\\salt\\conf if that file is in place before the installer is run. This allows for a malicious actor to subvert the proper behaviour of the given minion software.

Affected Applications

Salt

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