vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6948-1 (CVE-2021-25281): Salt vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 27, 2021
Added
Aug 9, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-salt-common
Title
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