Privilege Escalation Affecting salt package, versions [,3001.8) [3002rc1, 3002.7) [3003rc1,3003.3)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.49% (77th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-SALT-1583863
- published 9 Sep 2021
- disclosed 9 Sep 2021
- credit Jonathan Schlue
Introduced: 9 Sep 2021
CVE-2021-21996 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade salt to version 3001.8, 3002.7, 3003.3 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 Privilege Escalation. A user who has control of the source and source_hash URLs, can gain full file system access as root on a salt minion.
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CVSS Scores
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