Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-25282

CriticalPublic PoC

Published: 27 February 2021

Published
27 February 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.9129 99.7th percentile
Risk Priority 73 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-25282 is a critical-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Saltstack Salt. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 0.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method is vulnerable to directory traversal.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

saltstack
salt
≤ 2015.8.10 · 2015.8.11 — 2015.8.13 · 2016.3.0 — 2016.3.4
fedoraproject
fedora
32, 33, 34
debian
debian linux
10.0, 11.0, 9.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References