PyPi: Salt

CVE-2021-25283

Safety vulnerability ID: 41948

This vulnerability was reviewed by experts

The information on this page was manually curated by our Cybersecurity Intelligence Team.

Created at Feb 27, 2021 Updated at Jul 30, 2024
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Advisory

An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The jinja renderer does not protect against server side template injection attacks. Several Salt versions were patched. See: https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/

Affected package

salt

Latest version: 3007.1

Portable, distributed, remote execution and configuration management system

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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Fixed
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- CVE-2020-28243 - Fix local privilege escalation in the restartcheck module. (CVE-2020-28243)
- CVE-2020-28972 - Ensure authentication to vcenter, vsphere, and esxi server
validates the SSL/TLS certificate by default. If you want to skip SSL verification
you can use `verify_ssl: False`. (CVE-2020-28972)
- CVE-2020-35662 - Ensure the asam runner, qingcloud, splunk returner, panos
proxy, cimc proxy, zenoss module, esxi module, vsphere module, glassfish
module, bigip module, and keystone module validate SSL by default. If you want
to skip SSL verification you can use `verify_ssl: False`. (CVE-2020-35662)
- CVE-2021-25281 - Fix salt-api so it honors eauth credentials for the
wheel_async client. (CVE-2021-25281)
- CVE-2021-25282 - Fix the salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method so it is not
vulnerable to directory traversal. (CVE-2021-25282)
- CVE-2021-25283 - Fix the jinja render to protect against server side template
injection attacks. (CVE-2021-25283)
- CVE-2021-25284 - Fix cmdmod so it will not log credentials to log levels info
and error. (CVE-2021-25284)
- CVE-2021-3144 - Fix eauth tokens can be used once after expiration. (CVE-2021-3144)
- CVE-2021-3148 - Fix a command injection in the Salt-API when using the Salt-SSH client. (CVE-2021-3148)
- CVE-2021-3197 - Fix ssh client to remove ProxyCommand from arguments provided
by cli and netapi. (CVE-2021-3197)

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

CRITICAL 9.8

CVSS v3 Details

CRITICAL 9.8
Attack Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
NONE
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
HIGH
Integrity Impact (I)
HIGH
Availability Availability (A)
HIGH

CVSS v2 Details

HIGH 7.5
Access Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC)
LOW
Authentication (Au)
NONE
Confidentiality Impact (C)
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact (I)
PARTIAL
Availability Impact (A)
PARTIAL