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
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00019.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00019.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.