cve-2021-21996
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-09-08 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 18:30
Severity ?
Summary
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
security@vmware.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00019.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttps://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/Patch, Vendor Advisory
security@vmware.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00019.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Saltstack Salt Version: Saltstack Salt (before 3003.3)
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