[Pkg-salt-team] Bug#994016: salt: CVE-2021-21996 CVE-2021-22004

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: salt
Version: 3002.6+dfsg1-4
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream
Justification: user security hole
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerabilities were published for salt.

CVE-2021-21996[0]:
| An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. A user who
| has control of the source, and source_hash URLs can gain full file
| system access as root on a salt minion.


CVE-2021-22004[1]:
| 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.


If you fix the vulnerabilities please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) ids in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-21996
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21996
[1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-22004
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-22004

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore