CVE-2021-3148
9.8 CRITICALAn issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5
Published: 2021-02-27 · Last updated: 2026-06-17
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 9.8 CRITICAL
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CWE
- CWE-77
Affected products
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| debian | debian_linux, fedora, salt |
| fedoraproject | debian_linux, fedora, salt |
| saltstack | debian_linux, fedora, salt |
Description
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API can result in salt.utils.thin.gen_thin() command injection because of different handling of single versus double quotes. This is related to salt/utils/thin.py.
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3148
- [Other]https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases
- [Other]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html
- [Other]https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/
- [Other]https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/
- [Other]https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/
- [Vendor advisory]https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/
- [Other]https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01
- [Other]https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22
- [Other]https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011
- [Other]https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases
- [Other]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html
- [Other]https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/
- [Other]https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/
- [Other]https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/
- [Vendor advisory]https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/
- [Other]https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01
- [Other]https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22
- [Other]https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011
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