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Vulnerability details: VCID-a8kw-uehx-xfg5
Vulnerability ID VCID-a8kw-uehx-xfg5
Aliases CVE-2021-21996
GHSA-pf7h-h2wq-m7pg
PYSEC-2021-318
Summary An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. A user who has control of the source, and source_hash URLs can gain full file system access as root on a salt minion.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pf7h-h2wq-m7pg
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2021-318.yaml
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00017.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00019.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011
CVE-2021-21996 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21996
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.

Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:14:38.650470+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2021-318.yaml 38.6.0