CVE-2021-25281

Public Exploit

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.

Category

9.8
CVSS
Severity: Critical
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 94.08% Top 5%
Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory saltproject.io Vendor Advisory saltstack.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases third party advisory release notes
https://www.saltstack.com/blog/active-saltstack-cve-announced-2021-jan-21/ vendor advisory
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/ vendor advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/ mailing list third party advisory vendor advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/ mailing list third party advisory vendor advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/ mailing list third party advisory vendor advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162058/SaltStack-Salt-API-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html exploit vdb entry third party advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html third party advisory mailing list
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22 third party advisory vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2021-25281?
CVE-2021-25281 has been scored as a critical severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2021-25281?
To fix CVE-2021-25281, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2021-25281 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2021-25281 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~94% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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