The Salt Project has patched a privilege escalation bug impacting SaltStack Salt minions that could be used during a wider exploit chain. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-28243, is described as a privilege ...

SaltStack Enterprise 5.0 draws on high-speed messaging for superior scalability and control, but the web UI is still catching up The only sane and efficient way to manage a large numbers of servers—or ...

Thomas S. Hatch released Salt, aka the SaltStack Platform, in 2011 after becoming frustrated with the (slow) speed of the Ruby-based open source configuration management systems available at the time, ...

How to send commands and states to Linux minions from the Salt controller Your email has been sent Image: iStock/EvgeniyShkolenko Cloud: Must-read coverage CrowdStrike Outage Disrupts Microsoft ...

The Salt Project has issued a secondary fix for a command injection vulnerability after the first attempt to patch the issue partially failed. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-28243, impacts ...

SaltStack, a VMware-owned company, has revealed critical vulnerabilities impacting Salt versions 3002 and prior, with patches available as of today. Salt is an open-source IT infrastructure management ...

I was proudly wearing one of my Salt Stack shirts the other day when my daughter asked me, "What is Salt Stack?" I began by explaining the problem it solved. If you have multiple servers and want to ...

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Attackers are exploiting two critical vulnerabilities disclosed late last week in the popular SaltStack infrastructure automation software to take control of servers. Several organizations and ...

Researchers have identified a template injection technique against the open source SaltStack IT configuration and orchestration platform, as well as common misconfiguration issues, which could allow ...