CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-21996

7.5 HIGH Published 2021-09-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2021-09-08
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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 configurations

• saltstack salt (< 3000.3) • fedoraproject fedora 33 • fedoraproject fedora 34 • fedoraproject fedora 35 • debian debian linux 9.0 • debian debian linux 10.0 • debian debian linux 11.0

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00017.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00017.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011 Third Party Advisory