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Vulnerability details: VCID-48r4-3qds-bbhv
Vulnerability ID VCID-48r4-3qds-bbhv
Aliases CVE-2021-31607
GHSA-hcjf-rp5h-g5h3
PYSEC-2021-56
Summary In SaltStack Salt 2016.9 through 3002.6, a command injection vulnerability exists in the snapper module that allows for local privilege escalation on a minion. The attack requires that a file is created with a pathname that is backed up by snapper, and that the master calls the snapper.diff function (which executes popen unsafely).
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hcjf-rp5h-g5h3
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LDKMAJXYFHM4USVX3H5V2GCCBGASWUSM/
https://sec.stealthcopter.com/saltstack-snapper-minion-privledge-escaltion/
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:09:54.520150+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2021-56.yaml 38.6.0