VDB
CVE-2021-25281
CVE-2021-25281
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 93.85% · 99.9th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
93.85%
99.9th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS | salt | 2015.8.7+ds-1, 2015.8.8+ds-1, 2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS | salt | 0.17.2-2, 0.17.4-2, 0.17.2-3 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | salt | *, 0, 3002.6+dfsg1-4 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS | salt | *, 2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2, 2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.1 |
Exploit Intelligence
- (crowdsec)
- (crowdsec)
- Chaining CVE-2021-25281 and CVE-2021-25282 to exploit a SaltStack (github-poc)
- Chaining CVE-2021-25281 and CVE-2021-25282 to exploit a SaltStack (github-poc)
- Chaining CVE-2021-25281 and CVE-2021-25282 to exploit a SaltStack (github-poc)
- Chaining CVE-2021-25281 and CVE-2021-25282 to exploit a SaltStack (github-poc)
- Chaining CVE-2021-25281 and CVE-2021-25282 to exploit a SaltStack (github-poc)
- Chaining CVE-2021-25281 and CVE-2021-25282 to exploit a SaltStack (github-poc)
- Chaining CVE-2021-25281 and CVE-2021-25282 to exploit a SaltStack (github-poc)
- Chaining CVE-2021-25281 and CVE-2021-25282 to exploit a SaltStack (github-poc)
…and 125 more exploits
Timeline
- Feb 26, 2021 CVE Published
- Mar 31, 2021 PoC Published
- Apr 2, 2021 PoC Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- May 14, 2021 CrowdSec Sighting
- Sep 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Sep 16, 2021 EPSS Score
- Nov 11, 2021 EPSS Score
- Nov 20, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 25, 2022 CrowdSec Sighting
- Nov 16, 2022 CrowdSec Sighting
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-25281 third-party-advisory
- https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/ third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases third-party-advisory
- https://www.saltstack.com/blog/active-saltstack-cve-announced-2021-jan-21/ third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-25281 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6948-1 vendor-advisory