CVE-2021-21996

HIGH

SaltStack Salt <3003.3 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0226
EPSS Percentile 84.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (8)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
debian/debian_linux 11.0
fedoraproject/fedora 33
fedoraproject/fedora 34
fedoraproject/fedora 35
pypi/salt 0 - 3003.3PyPI
saltstack/salt < 3000.3
Published Sep 08, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026