Vulnerability CVE-2021-25281
Published: 2021-02-27

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.

Type:

CWE-287

 (Improper Authentication)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Saltstack -> SALT 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/
https://www.saltstack.com/blog/active-saltstack-cve-announced-2021-jan-21/
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