Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-21996

High

Published: 08 September 2021

Published
08 September 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0226 85.0th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-21996 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 15.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

saltstack
salt
≤ 3000.3
fedoraproject
fedora
33, 34, 35
debian
debian linux
10.0, 11.0, 9.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References