CVE-2021-25281 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt-api does not honor eauth credentials for the wheel_async client. Thus an attacker can remotely run any wheel modules on the master.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases https://www.saltstack.com/blog/active-saltstack-cve-announced-2021-jan-21/ https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162058/SaltStack-Salt-API-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8