CVE-2021-3148

CRITICAL

SaltStack Salt < 3002.5 - Command Injection via Thin Generation

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API can result in salt.utils.thin.gen_thin() command injection because of different handling of single versus double quotes. This is related to salt/utils/thin.py.

References (9)

Core 9

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22

Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases

Vendor Advisory

https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.0825

EPSS Percentile 94.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-77

Status published

Products (8)

debian/debian_linux 9.0

debian/debian_linux 10.0

debian/debian_linux 11.0

fedoraproject/fedora 32

fedoraproject/fedora 33

fedoraproject/fedora 34

pypi/salt 0 - 2015.8.13PyPI

saltstack/salt < 2015.8.10

Published Feb 27, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026