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Critical DLA-2815-1 11 CVEs

salt - security update

Published Nov 10, 2021 · Updated Mar 9, 2026

Ecosystem: Debian

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Debian · 9 salt 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u7

Vulnerabilities 11

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2021-25281 Public exploit Scanner template EPSS 73%

    SaltStack Salt Improper Authentication vulnerability

    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.

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  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2021-25283 EPSS 10%

    SaltStack Salt Server Side Template Injection

    An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The jinja renderer does not protect against server side template injection attacks.

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  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2021-3148

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

    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.p…

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  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2021-3197 EPSS 72%

    SaltStack Salt is vulnerable to shell injection via ProxyCommand argument

    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.

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  • Critical 9.1
    CVE-2021-25282 Public exploit EPSS 93%

    SaltStack Salt Directory Traversal vulnerability

    An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method is vulnerable to directory traversal.

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  • Critical 9.1
    CVE-2021-3144

    SaltStack Salt eauth tokens can be used once after expiration

    In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, eauth tokens can be used once after expiration. (They might be used to run command against the salt master or minions.)

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  • High 7.8
    CVE-2020-28243 Public exploit

    SaltStack Salt command injection via a crafted process name

    An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The minion's restartcheck is vulnerable to command injection via a crafted process name. This allows for a local privilege escalation by any user able to create a files on the minion in a non-blackliste…

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  • High 7.8
    CVE-2021-31607

    Command Injection in SaltStack Salt

    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 t…

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  • High 7.4
    CVE-2020-35662

    SaltStack Salt Improper SSL Certificate Validation

    In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, when authenticating to services using certain modules, the SSL certificate is not always validated.

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  • Medium 5.9
    CVE-2020-28972

    SaltStack Salt Improper Certificate Validation

    In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, authentication to VMware vcenter, vsphere, and esxi servers (in the vmware.py files) does not always validate the SSL/TLS certificate.

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  • Medium 4.4
    CVE-2021-25284

    SaltStack Salt Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information via cmdmod

    An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt.modules.cmdmod can log credentials to the info or error log level.

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