{"schema_version":"1.7.5","id":"CVE-2021-21996","published":"2021-09-08T15:15:12.670Z","modified":"2026-07-08T05:57:31.049278658Z","aliases":["GHSA-pf7h-h2wq-m7pg","PYSEC-2021-318"],"related":["SUSE-RU-2021:3551-1","SUSE-SU-2021:14833-1","SUSE-SU-2021:3550-1","SUSE-SU-2021:3553-1","SUSE-SU-2021:3555-1","SUSE-SU-2021:3556-1","SUSE-SU-2021:3557-1","SUSE-SU-2021:3561-1","SUSE-SU-2021:3621-1","SUSE-SU-2021:3906-1","SUSE-SU-2021:3908-1","openSUSE-SU-2021:1443-1","openSUSE-SU-2021:3557-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:11364-1"],"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.","affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/saltstack/salt","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3c609c16ee0454217f339e987c03eaf61662a853"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3000.3"}],"source":"CPE_RANGE"}}],"versions":["v3000.2_docs","v3000.2","v3000.1","v3000_docs","v3000","v3000.0rc1","v3000.0rc2","v2019.2.1","v2019.2.1rc1","v2019.2","v2018.11","v2017.7","v2017.5","v2018.3","v2018.2","v2016.9","v2016.11","v2016.3","v2015.8","v2015.5","v2015.2","v2014.7","v2014.1","v0.17","v0.16","v0.15.0","v0.14.0","v0.13.0","v0.12.0","v0.11.0","v0.10.5","v0.10.4","v0.10.3","v0.10.2","v0.10.1","v0.10.0","v0.9.9","v0.9.3","v0.9.2","v0.9.1","v0.9.0","v0.8.9","v0.8.7","v0.8.0","v0.7.0","v0.6.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-21996.json"}}],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00017.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00019.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/"}],"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"9.0"},{"last_affected":"9.0"},{"introduced":"10.0"},{"last_affected":"10.0"},{"introduced":"11.0"},{"last_affected":"11.0"}],"source":"CPE_STRING","vendor_product":"debian:debian_linux"},{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"33"},{"last_affected":"33"},{"introduced":"34"},{"last_affected":"34"},{"introduced":"35"},{"last_affected":"35"}],"source":"CPE_STRING","vendor_product":"fedoraproject:fedora"}]},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}