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CVE-2021-25281

salt: API does not honor eAuth credentials for the wheel_async client

Published Modified CWE 287
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA, Photon OS. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt-api does not honor eauth credentials for the wheel_async client. Thus, an attacker can remotely run any wheel modules on the master.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0salt, salt32019.2.4-2.ph1
Photon OS 3.0salt32019.2.8-3.ph3
Photon OS 4.0salt3, salt3-api, salt3-cloud and 6 more3003-1.ph4
pip::GitHub Security Advisory pipsalt2015.8.13, 2016.11.5, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.8, 2019.2.8, 3000.7, 3001.5, 3002.3
alpine 3.13salt3002.5-r0
debian 10salt2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3
debian 9salt2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u7
Red Hatsalt, salt-minionno fix listed
ubuntu 16.04-ESMsalt2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm2
ubuntu 18.04-ESMsalt2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1
Show all 20 entries from 10 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0salt2019.2.4-2.ph1
Photon OS 1.0salt32019.2.4-2.ph1
Photon OS 3.0salt32019.2.8-3.ph3
Photon OS 4.0salt33003-1.ph4
Photon OS 4.0salt3-api3003-1.ph4
Photon OS 4.0salt3-cloud3003-1.ph4
Photon OS 4.0salt3-master3003-1.ph4
Photon OS 4.0salt3-minion3003-1.ph4
Photon OS 4.0salt3-proxy3003-1.ph4
Photon OS 4.0salt3-spm3003-1.ph4
Photon OS 4.0salt3-ssh3003-1.ph4
Photon OS 4.0salt3-syndic3003-1.ph4
pip::GitHub Security Advisory pipsalt2015.8.13, 2016.11.5, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.8, 2019.2.8, 3000.7, 3001.5, 3002.3
alpine 3.13salt3002.5-r0
debian 10salt2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3
debian 9salt2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u7
Red Hatsaltno fix listed
Red Hatsalt-minionno fix listed
ubuntu 16.04-ESMsalt2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm2
ubuntu 18.04-ESMsalt2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1

References

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