Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package salt (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published9 Sept 2021
- disclosed8 Sept 2021
Introduced: 8 Sep 2021
CVE-2021-21996 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:12.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt package and not the salt package as distributed by Debian.
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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-21996
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/
- https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00019.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011