In short
- CVE-2021-31607 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting salt, salt (saltstack).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 5.9%, higher than 93.2% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 3003rc1 or later.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| salt PyPI | ≥ 2016.11.0, < 3003rc1
| 3003rc1
|
| salt | ≥ 2016.9, ≤ 3002.6
| No fix yet |
Description
In SaltStack Salt 2016.9 through 3002.6, a command injection vulnerability exists in the snapper module that allows for local privilege escalation on a minion. The attack requires that a file is created with a pathname that is backed up by snapper, and that the master calls the snapper.diff function (which executes popen unsafely).
NVD description
In SaltStack Salt 2016.9 through 3002.6, a command injection vulnerability exists in the snapper module that allows for local privilege escalation on a minion. The attack requires that a file is created with a pathname that is backed up by snapper, and that the master calls the snapper.diff function (which executes popen unsafely).
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