CVE-2021-21996

high

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.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00019.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00017.html

https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-09-08

Updated: 2023-12-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H