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SaltStack Salt command injection in the Salt-API when using the Salt-SSH client

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 22, 2024

Package

pip salt (pip)

Affected versions

< 2015.8.13
>= 2016.3.0, < 2016.11.5
>= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10
>= 2017.5.0, < 2017.7.8
>= 2018.2.0, <= 2018.3.5
>= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.8
>= 3000, < 3000.7
>= 3001, < 3001.5
>= 3002, < 3002.3

Patched versions

2015.8.13
2016.11.5
2016.11.10
2017.7.8
2019.2.8
3000.7
3001.5
3002.3

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 27, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Apr 22, 2024
Last updated Apr 22, 2024

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-3148

GHSA ID

GHSA-ghc2-hx3w-jqmp

Source code

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