CVE-2021-21996
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. A user who has control of the source, and source_hash URLs can gain full file system access as root on a salt minion.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/ ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00017.htmlAdvisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00019.htmlAdvisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011Advisory