CVE-2024-22231: Directory creation by malicious user in saltstack

June 27, 2024

Syndic cache directory creation is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack in salt project which can lead a malicious attacker to create an arbitrary directory on a Salt master.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-q27c-j6j9-53w3
github.com/saltstack/salt
github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e0cdb80b55123f4a024759ffcf2b3f0e0788e7ab
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22231
saltproject.io/security-announcements/2024-01-31-advisory

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