🛡️ CVE-2014-3563 — salt

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-59 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

SaltStack Salt Insecure Temporary File Creation

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.

Weakness class

CVE-2014-3563 is classified as CWE-59: Link Following. The software follows symbolic or hard links without verifying their target, so a planted link can redirect an operation to a sensitive file.

Affected software

CVE-2014-3563 is recorded against 1 package.

  • salt (fixed in 2014.1.10)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 1 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
docs.saltstack.com (Web)
seclists.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-59
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-12-01
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
salt 2014.1.10

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