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CVE-2021-3148An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API can result in…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 8.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 44 days later
· 44 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 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.2% · top 5.0% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
References9
- 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
- [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
- 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-2021-0232 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-ghc2-hx3w-jqmp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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