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CVE-2021-25281

Improper Authentication

Published: Feb 27, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.1 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25281
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/287.html

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.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
SaltSaltstack*2015.8.10 (excluding)
SaltSaltstack2015.8.11 (including)2015.8.13 (excluding)
SaltSaltstack2016.3.0 (including)2016.3.4 (excluding)
SaltSaltstack2016.3.5 (including)2016.3.6 (excluding)
SaltSaltstack2016.3.7 (including)2016.3.8 (excluding)
SaltSaltstack2016.3.9 (including)2016.11.3 (excluding)
SaltSaltstack2016.11.4 (including)2016.11.5 (excluding)
SaltSaltstack2016.11.7 (including)2016.11.10 (excluding)
SaltSaltstack2017.5.0 (including)2017.7.8 (excluding)
SaltSaltstack2018.2.0 (including)2018.3.5 (including)
SaltSaltstack2019.2.0 (including)2019.2.5 (excluding)
SaltSaltstack2019.2.6 (including)2019.2.8 (excluding)
SaltSaltstack3000 (including)3000.6 (excluding)
SaltSaltstack3001 (including)3001.4 (excluding)
SaltSaltstack3002 (including)3002.5 (excluding)
SaltUbuntubionic*
SaltUbuntuesm-apps/bionic*
SaltUbuntuesm-apps/xenial*
SaltUbuntugroovy*
SaltUbuntuhirsute*
SaltUbuntuimpish*
SaltUbuntukinetic*
SaltUbuntutrusty*
SaltUbuntutrusty/esm*
SaltUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References

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