9.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2021-25281

Published: 27/02/2021 Updated: 21/12/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

An issue exists in through SaltStack Salt prior to 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.

Vulnerability Trend

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #983632 salt: CVE-2020-28243 CVE-2020-28972 CVE-2020-35662 CVE-2021-3148 CVE-2021-3144 CVE-2021-25281 CVE-2021-25282 CVE-2021-25283 CVE-2021-25284 CVE-2021-3197 Package: src:salt; Maintainer for src:salt is Debian Salt Team <pkg-salt-team@alioth-listsdebiannet>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso &lt ...
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt, a powerful remote execution manager, that allow for local privilege escalation on a minion, server side template injection attacks, insufficient checks for eauth credentials, shell and command injections or incorrect validation of SSL certificates For the oldstable distribution (buste ...
A security issue was found in SaltStack before versions 30025, 30016 and 30008 The SaltAPI does not honor eauth credentials for the wheel_async client Thus, an attacker can remotely run any wheel modules on the master ...

Exploits

This Metasploit module leverages an authentication bypass and directory traversal vulnerabilities in Saltstack Salt's REST API to execute commands remotely on the master as the root user Every 60 seconds, salt-master service performs a maintenance process check that reloads and executes all the grains on the master, including custom grain modules ...

Github Repositories

Chaining CVE-2021-25281 and CVE-2021-25282 to exploit a SaltStack

CVE-2021-25281 Chaining CVE-2021-25281 and CVE-2021-25282 to exploit a SaltStack