CVE-2021-3197

high-risk

Published 2021-02-27

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt-api's ssh client is vulnerable to a shell injection by including ProxyCommand in an argument, or via ssh_options provided in an API request.

Do I need to act?

9.9% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — moderate exploit probability

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 9.8/10 Critical

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (7)

Salt

Fedora

Debian Linux

Affected Vendors

Debian Fedoraproject Saltstack

References (20)

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

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

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high-risk

Severity 32/34 · Critical

Exploitability 11/34 · Low

Exposure 14/34 · Moderate