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CVE-2021-21996

7.5 highEPSS 3.5%

High (7.5). EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in salt 3003.3.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-pf7h-h2wq-m7pgPyPIsalt<3003.33003.3
PYSEC-2021-318PyPIsalt<3003.33003.3

References

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