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CVE-2021-21996

Published: Sep 08, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.1 HIGH
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21996
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Salt Saltstack * 3000.3 (excluding)
Salt Ubuntu bionic *
Salt Ubuntu hirsute *
Salt Ubuntu impish *
Salt Ubuntu kinetic *
Salt Ubuntu trusty *
Salt Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Salt Ubuntu xenial *

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