CVE-2023-34049

high

Description

The vulnerability exists due to a symlink following issue in Salt-SSH pre-flight option. A local user can create a specially crafted symbolic link to an empty file on the system, wait for the salt to create the file for further execution, update the symbolic link and point it to another file that is under attacker's control and execute the file with root privileges.

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-11-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High