Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-3148

CriticalRCE

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 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0733 91.9th percentile
Risk Priority 24 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-3148 is a critical-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Saltstack Salt. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 8.1% 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 3002.5. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API can result in salt.utils.thin.gen_thin() command injection because of different handling of single versus double quotes. This is related to salt/utils/thin.py.

CWE(s)
CWE-77

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

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

References