UBUNTU-CVE-2021-25281

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-25281

    Published: 27 Feb 2021Last Modified: 8 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-25281
    Aliases:
    USN-6948-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-25281, https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/, https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases, https://www.saltstack.com/blog/active-saltstack-cve-announced-2021-jan-21/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-25281, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6948-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: salt

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm5?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.16.0-1
    0.16.4-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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