Critical severity · published Feb 27, 2021
CVE-2021-3144
In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, eauth tokens can be used once after expiration
9.1
CVSS
5.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, eauth tokens can be used once after expiration. (They might be used to run command against the salt master or minions.)
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.1% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0; 11.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
32; 33; 34 · source: NVD
SA
Salt · Saltstack
before 2015.8.10; 2015.8.11 before 2015.8.13; 2016.3.0 before 2016.3.4; 2016.3.5 before 2016.3.6; 2016.3.7 before 2016.3.8; 2016.3.9 before 2016.11.3; +9 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3144
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3144
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.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/
Vendor Advisory
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/
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