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.

How to fix CVE-2021-25281

To remediate CVE-2021-25281, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• PyPI/salt—upgrade to 2015.8.13 or later
• —upgrade to 2015.8.10 or later

Is CVE-2021-25281 being exploited?

Likely — EPSS is 93.8%, placing CVE-2021-25281 in the top tier of vulnerabilities by exploitation probability. Prioritise patching.

Affected packages (2)

• from 0, < 2015.8.13
• from 0, < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.5, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2019.2.0rc1, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 2019.2.6, < 2019.2.8, >= 3000, < 3000.6, >= 3001, < 3001.4, >= 3002, < 3002.5

CVSS scores

References (26)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-xxw3-765m-f37p
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25281
• ADVISORYwww.saltstack.com/blog/active-saltstack-cve-announced-2021-jan-21/
• PATCHgithub.com/saltstack/salt