CVE-2021-3197: PYSEC-2021-57 - An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt-api's ssh client is vulnerable to a shell injection by including ProxyComm

CVE-2021-3197 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2021-02-27

Technologies: salt (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Executive brief

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt-api's ssh client is vulnerable to a shell injection by including ProxyCommand in an argument, or via ssh_options provided in an API request.

Affected products

PyPI salt

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