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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-21996: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-21996: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/08/2021
Created
10/02/2024
Added
10/01/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-salt

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