CVE-2021-3197

Description

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt-api's ssh client is vulnerable to a shell injection by including ProxyCommand in an argument, or via ssh_options provided in an API request.

How to fix CVE-2021-3197

To remediate CVE-2021-3197, 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-2021-3197 being exploited?

Moderate — EPSS is 9.9%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.

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 (25)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-8rp6-x3r7-5qw3
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3197
• PATCHgithub.com/saltstack/salt
• WEBgithub.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2021-57.yaml