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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-25281

Thus, an attacker can remotely run any wheel modules on the master.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 73.1%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 73.1%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt-api does not honor eauth credentials for the wheel_async client. Thus, an attacker can remotely run any wheel modules on the master.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
73.13% probability · 99th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-287
Affected
saltstack/salt · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

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