diff --git a/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml b/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml
index 24ba29d98..19677f70b 100644
--- a/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml
+++ b/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # 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: 3006.8
+    version: 3006.6
diff --git a/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml b/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml
index dddd6683b..2e4ebc93e 100644
--- a/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml
+++ b/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # 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: 3006.8
+    version: 3006.6
     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.