Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere Affecting salt package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.55% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-SALT-4441637
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed2 Sept 2021

Introduced: 2 Sep 2021

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 salt.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt package and not the salt package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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 Scores

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