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high 8.8

CVE-2022-22941 json

SaltStack Salt Permissions Bypass

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-qcr3-hr2f-6557 , PYSEC-2022-174 , EUVD-2022-0273

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. When configured as a Master-of-Masters, with a publisher_acl, if a user configured in the publisher_acl targets any minion connected to the Syndic, the Salt Master incorrectly interpreted no valid targets as valid, allowing configured users to target any of the minions connected to the syndic with their configured commands. This requires a syndic master combined with publisher_acl configured on the Master-of-Masters, allowing users specified in the publisher_acl to bypass permissions, publishing authorized commands to any configured minion.

Patch / fix

  • pypi salt 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1
  • saltstack salt 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1
  • venv-salt-minion Manager Client Tools 12 3004-3.8.1
  • venv-salt-minion Manager Client Tools 15 3004-150000.3.8.1
  • salt SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP2-LTSS, SLES 15 SP2-BCL +8 more 3002.2-150200.64.1
  • salt SLE Module for Transactional Server 15 SP3, SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP3, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 +3 more 3002.2-150300.53.16.1
  • salt SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP1-LTSS, SLES 15 SP1-BCL +3 more 3002.2-150100.63.1
  • salt SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS +1 more 3002.2-150000.8.41.32.1
  • salt SLE Module for Advanced Systems Management 12, Manager Client Tools 12 3000-62.1
  • salt SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP1-LTSS, SLES 15 SP1-BCL +3 more 3002.2-150100.57.1

suse advisories SUSE-FU-2022:2135-1SUSE-FU-2022:2042-1SUSE-RU-2022:1392-1SUSE-RU-2022:1391-1SUSE-RU-2022:1389-1SUSE-RU-2022:1385-1

  • salt openSUSE Leap 15.3 3002.2-150300.53.10.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2022:1059-1

  • salt Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 3004.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-22941

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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red hat product security vex CVE-2022-22941 updated cvss 8.8

salt: users specified in the publisher_acl able to bypass permissions

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

1.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi salt
<3002.8
>=3003, <3003.4
>=3004, <3004.1
3002.8
3003.4
3004.1

Affected products

  • n/a SaltStack Salt

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

Sources

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