Alpine: multiple salt packages: security update to 3003.3-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 407046

Description

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

- 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. (CVE-2021-21996)

- An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. The salt minion installer will accept and use a
minion config file at C:\salt\conf if that file is in place before the installer is run. This allows for a
malicious actor to subvert the proper behaviour of the given minion software. (CVE-2021-22004)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 407046

Version: Revision 1.36

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21996

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21996, CVE-2021-22004

IAVA: 2021-A-0524-S

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