Executive brief
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. A user who has control of the source, and source_hash URLs can gain full file system access as root on a salt minion.
Affected products
- PyPI salt
Junglewise Threat Intelligence
CVE-2021-21996: PYSEC-2021-318 - An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. A user who has control of the source, and source_hash URLs can gain full file syste
CVE-2021-21996 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2021-09-08
Technologies: salt (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.
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