CVE-2014-3563: SaltStack Salt Insecure Temporary File Creation

May 17, 2022 (updated October 21, 2024)

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Salt (aka SaltStack) before 2014.1.10 allow local users to have an unspecified impact via vectors related to temporary file creation in (1) seed.py, (2) salt-ssh, or (3) salt-cloud.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95392
github.com/advisories/GHSA-mfr3-9cj8-h2qm
github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2014-18.yaml
github.com/saltstack/salt
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3563

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