vulnerability

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
Sep 8, 2021
Added
Oct 1, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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

alpine-linux-upgrade-salt
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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