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CVE-2021-25281 (GCVE-0-2021-25281)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-27 00:00 – Updated: 2024-11-19 15:42
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt-api does not honor eauth credentials for the wheel_async client. Thus, an attacker can remotely run any wheel modules on the master.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-19 15:42 UTC
CWE
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