CVE-2021-3148 (GCVE-0-2021-3148)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-27 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 16:45
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2316 records in the last 180 days details
References
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Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC

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