CVE-2021-21996
HIGH7.5EPSS 2.3%salt - security update
Published: 11/21/2021Modified: 3/9/2026
Description
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 packages (4)
- Debian/saltfrom 0, < 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u8
- Debian/saltfrom 0, < 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3
- PyPI/saltfrom 0, < 3003.3
- PyPI/saltfrom 0, < 3003.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (16)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pf7h-h2wq-m7pg
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21996
- ADVISORYhttps://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/
- PATCHhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2021-318.yaml
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00017.html
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00019.html
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ
- WEBhttps://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22
- WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011