| Name | CVE-2021-25281 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 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. |
| 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-2815-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 983632 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
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 | (not affected) | | | |
| salt | source | stretch | 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u7 | | DLA-2815-1 | |
| salt | source | buster | 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3 | | | |
| salt | source | (unstable) | 3002.5+dfsg1-1 | | | 983632 |
Notes
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/
https://gitlab.com/saltstack/open/salt-patches/-/tree/master/patches/2021/01/28
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/905efea17d9740a081509780d7c44e742b99ce60 (v3000.7)
Regression: https://gitlab.com/saltstack/open/salt-patches/-/tree/master/patches/2021/02/05
Regression: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/8f8994ba42e618a9b07fac417d931bdb7b7005d1
Regression: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/41a24843d8b22c6a340338ac86a628323fbfc181
Regression: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/7b3591d9cd427d46e410bc2d510e2ccfa6a23884
[jessie] - salt <not-affected> (WheelClient.cmd_async not present, salt-api not packaged, exploit requires CVE-2021-25282)