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CVE-2021-25281

critical

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.

References

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

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases

https://github.com/Slimicide/Detect-CVEs

https://github.com/SkyBulk/CVE-2021-25281

https://github.com/Immersive-Labs-Sec/CVE-2021-25281

https://www.saltstack.com/blog/active-saltstack-cve-announced-2021-jan-21/

https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162058/SaltStack-Salt-API-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-02-27

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.7313