Critical severity · published Feb 27, 2021
CVE-2021-3148
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5
9.8
CVSS
8.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)8.2% · higher than 95% 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-2021-3148
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3148
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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