Alpine: multiple salt packages: security update to 3002.5-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 407044

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt-api's ssh client is vulnerable to a
shell injection by including ProxyCommand in an argument, or via ssh_options provided in an API request.
(CVE-2021-3197)

- In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, eauth tokens can be used once after expiration. (They might be used to
run command against the salt master or minions.) (CVE-2021-3144)

- An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API can
result in salt.utils.thin.gen_thin() command injection because of different handling of single versus
double quotes. This is related to salt/utils/thin.py. (CVE-2021-3148)

- 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.
(CVE-2021-25281)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 407044

Version: Revision 1.39

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 5/4/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3197

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2021

Exploitable With

Metasploit (SaltStack Salt API Unauthenticated RCE through wheel_async client)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25281, CVE-2021-25282, CVE-2021-25283, CVE-2021-25284, CVE-2021-3144, CVE-2021-3148, CVE-2021-3197

IAVA: 2021-A-0112-S

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