CVE-2021-25282

high-risk

Published 2021-02-27

An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method is vulnerable to directory traversal.

Do I need to act?

90.9% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — higher than 9% of all CVEs

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 9.1/10 Critical

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Salt

Fedora

Debian Linux

Debian Fedoraproject Saltstack

Exploit http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162058/SaltStack-Salt-API-Unauthenticated-R...

Third Party Advisory https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases

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

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html

Mailing List https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Vendor Advisory https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-...

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22

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

Exploit http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162058/SaltStack-Salt-API-Unauthenticated-R...

Third Party Advisory https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases

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

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html

Mailing List https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Vendor Advisory https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-...

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01

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high-risk

Severity 31/34 · Critical

Exploitability 20/34 · Moderate

Exposure 14/34 · Moderate