CVE-2021-25282An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method is vulnerable to directory…
- 9.1CriticalCVSS base score
- 92.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method is vulnerable to directory traversal.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- SaltStack Salt API Unauthenticated RCE through wheel_async client (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/http/saltstack_salt_wheel_async_rceRank excellentdisclosed 25 Feb 2021
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 42 days later
· 42 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 92.6% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
References11
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2021-904a2dbc0c (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2021-5756fbf8a6 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2021-43eb5584ad (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- GLSA-202103-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162058/SaltStack-Salt-API-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20211110 [SECURITY] [DLA 2815-1] salt security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- DSA-5011 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20220103 [SECURITY] [DLA 2480-2] salt regression update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- GLSA-202310-22 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-0228 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-76x4-x3p6-rpr9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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