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CVE-2021-25282

salt: Directory traversal in wheel.pillar_roots.write

Published Modified CWE 22
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
GHSA8.8CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Red Hat5.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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

Description

An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method is vulnerable to directory traversal.

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
alpine 3.13salt3002.5-r0
debian 10salt2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3
debian 9salt2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u7
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
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
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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
alpine 3.13salt3002.5-r0
debian 10salt2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3
debian 9salt2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u7
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
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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