CVE-2021-21996

Summary

CVECVE-2021-21996
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-09-08 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-12-21 18:30:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Application Saltstack Salt All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 2823-1] salt security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: salt-3003.3-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2823-2] salt regression update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: salt-3003.3-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: salt-3003.3-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5011-1 salt DEBIAN www.debian.org
Salt Security Advisory 2021-SEP-02 - Salt Project MISC saltproject.io
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: salt-3003.3-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: salt-3003.3-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: salt-3003.3-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Salt: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202310-22) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178903 Debian Security Update for salt (DSA 5011-1)
  • 178905 Debian Security Update for salt (DLA 2823-1)
  • 178906 Debian Security Update for salt (DLA 2823-2)
  • 281892 Fedora Security Update for salt (FEDORA-2021-00ada7e667)
  • 281893 Fedora Security Update for salt (FEDORA-2021-93a7c8b7c6)
  • 376109 SaltStack Salt Minion Multiple Vulnerabilities
  • 501924 Alpine Linux Security Update for salt
  • 710782 Gentoo Linux Salt Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202310-22)
  • 751284 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for salt (SUSE-SU-2021:3555-1)
  • 751286 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for Salt (SUSE-SU-2021:3553-1)
  • 751287 OpenSUSE Security Update for salt (openSUSE-SU-2021:3557-1)
  • 751318 OpenSUSE Security Update for salt (openSUSE-SU-2021:1443-1)
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