CVE-2021-21996

CWE-668 — Exposure to Wrong Sphere6 documents5 sources
Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
2.7%
top 14.02%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Saltstack SaltDebian Debian LinuxFedoraproject Fedora
Timeline
PublishedSep 8
Latest updateNov 21

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.6 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDsaltstack/salt< 3000.3
▶CVEListV5saltstack_saltSaltstack Salt (before 3003.3)
▶PyPIsalt< 3003.3

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 11.0, 9.0, Fedora 33, 34, 35

Patches

Patch: saltproject.io ↗Patch: saltproject.io ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in salt↗2021-11-21
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GHSA
Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in salt↗2021-11-21
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OSV
CVE-2021-21996: An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003↗2021-09-08
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CVEList
CVE-2021-21996: An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003↗2021-09-08
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
salt: user having control of source and source_hash URLs leads to root access↗2021-09-02
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