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.
{ "nvd_published_at": "2021-09-08T15:15:00Z", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-287" ], "severity": "HIGH", "github_reviewed": true, "github_reviewed_at": "2022-06-23T06:42:48Z" }