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Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in salt

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 21, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 21, 2023

Package

pip salt (pip)

Affected versions

>= 0, < 3003.3

Patched versions

3003.3

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 8, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 21, 2021
Reviewed Jul 5, 2022
Last updated Dec 21, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-21996

GHSA ID

GHSA-pf7h-h2wq-m7pg

Source code

No known source code
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