CVE-2021-31607
CVSS v3
7.8
HIGH
EPSS Score
5.9 %
exploit probability, as of 2026-10-19
CISA KEV
No
known exploited
Exploitation
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SSVC status
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Packages
- saltPyPIfrom 2016.11.0 · fixed in 3003rc1
Vendor advisories
salt: Command injection in the snapper module
salt as a component of Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 · salt-minion as a component of Red Hat Ceph Storage 2
Description
In SaltStack Salt 2016.9 through 3002.6, a command injection vulnerability exists in the snapper module that allows for local privilege escalation on a minion. The attack requires that a file is created with a pathname that is backed up by snapper, and that the master calls the snapper.diff function (which executes popen unsafely).
Technical details
- Published
- 2021-04-23
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