CVE-2021-31607

HIGH

SaltStack Salt 2016.9-3002.6 - OS Command Injection via Snapper Module

Title source: llm

Description

In SaltStack Salt 2016.9 through 3002.6, a command injection vulnerability exists in the snapper module that allows for local privilege escalation on a minion. The attack requires that a file is created with a pathname that is backed up by snapper, and that the master calls the snapper.diff function (which executes popen unsafely).

References (8)

Core 8

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LDKMAJXYFHM4USVX3H5V2GCCBGASWUSM/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/

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

Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory

https://sec.stealthcopter.com/saltstack-snapper-minion-privledge-escaltion/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0381

EPSS Percentile 88.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-78

Status published

Products (5)

fedoraproject/fedora 33

fedoraproject/fedora 34

fedoraproject/fedora 35

pypi/salt 2016.11.0 - 3003rc1PyPI

saltstack/salt 2016.9 - 3002.6

Published Apr 23, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026