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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-25282

The salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method is vulnerable to directory traversal.

CRITICAL 9.1EPSS 92.4%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 92.4%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method is vulnerable to directory traversal.

CVSS 3.1
9.1 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS
92.41% probability · 100th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-22
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.