Security advisory

{
  "id": "3d50f35dc6a0ee00ce94c1277c47825cfc85bfc3554dac203d4ab2b4833e25ed",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-21996",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-21996",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-21996",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-21996",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2021-21996",
        "GHSA-pf7h-h2wq-m7pg",
        "PYSEC-2021-318"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/saltstack/salt",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "3c609c16ee0454217f339e987c03eaf61662a853"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "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"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:03.801612772Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00017.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00019.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BUWUF5VTENNP2ZYZBVFKPSUHLKLUBD5/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ACVT7M4YLZRLWWQ6SGRK3C6TOF4FXOXT/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MBAHHSGZLEJRCG4DX6J4RBWJAAWH55RQ/",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011",
        "https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-2021-sep-02/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "10.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "10.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "11.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "11.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "33"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "33"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "34"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "34"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "35"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "35"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-21996",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440350,
  "published_at": "2021-09-08T15:15:12.67+00:00"
}