Improper Authorization Affecting salt package, versions [3002rc1,3002.5)[3001rc1,3001.6)[,3000.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
85.92% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SALT-1080589
  • published27 Feb 2021
  • disclosed27 Feb 2021
  • creditTencent Yunding, Daniel Jensen @dozernz

Introduced: 27 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-25281  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-285  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade salt to version 3002.5, 3001.6, 3000.8 or higher.

Overview

salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authorization. The SaltAPI does not honor eauth credentials for the wheel_async client. Thus, an attacker can remotely run any wheel modules on the master.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1