Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere Affecting salt package, versions <3003.3-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.51% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE314-SALT-1582716
  • published4 Sept 2021
  • disclosed8 Sept 2021

Introduced: 4 Sep 2021

CVE-2021-21996  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-668  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.14 salt to version 3003.3-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt package and not the salt package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.14 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1