THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2021-3148
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2021-3148

Salt vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
8.2%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Saltstack
Affected product
Salt
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2021-02-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-3148

  • Confirm whether Saltstack Salt is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-3148.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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