diff --git a/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml b/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml
index 40b6f5268..1b4d2e63a 100644
--- a/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml
+++ b/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-#version cannot be used elsewhere in this pillar as soup is grepping for it to determine if Salt needs to be patched
-# When updating the salt version, also update the version in securityonion-builds/images/iso-task/Dockerfile and saltify function in so-functions
+# version cannot be used elsewhere in this pillar as soup is grepping for it to determine if Salt needs to be patched
 salt:
   master:
-    version: 3006.3
+    version: 3006.5
diff --git a/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml b/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml
index 71fd18f96..c15929951 100644
--- a/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml
+++ b/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-#version cannot be used elsewhere in this pillar as soup is grepping for it to determine if Salt needs to be patched
-# When updating the salt version, also update the version in securityonion-builds/images/iso-task/Dockerfile and saltify function in so-functions
+# version cannot be used elsewhere in this pillar as soup is grepping for it to determine if Salt needs to be patched
 salt:
   minion:
-    version: 3006.3
+    version: 3006.5
     check_threshold: 3600 # in seconds, threshold used for so-salt-minion-check. any value less than 600 seconds may cause a lot of salt-minion restarts since the job to touch the file occurs every 5-8 minutes by default
     service_start_delay: 30 # in seconds.