| Name | CVE-2021-21996 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2823-1, DSA-5011-1, ELA-537-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 994016 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| salt (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2014.1.13+ds-3+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10 | fixed | |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| salt | source | jessie | 2014.1.13+ds-3+deb8u2 | ELA-537-1 | ||
| salt | source | stretch | 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u8 | DLA-2823-1 | ||
| salt | source | buster | 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3 | DSA-5011-1 | ||
| salt | source | bullseye | 3002.6+dfsg1-4+deb11u1 | DSA-5011-1 | ||
| salt | source | (unstable) | 3002.7+dfsg1-1 | 994016 |
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/
Fixed by https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/0b75ba190fda9c04cc026ad1aa4a6d572f40349b
https://github.com/openSUSE/salt/commit/57ed9c41a177f57e3d56465662750617ac36cc95