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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-21996

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 3.51%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.51%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

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 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
3.51% probability · 89th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
saltstack/salt · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux
Source
security@vmware.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.