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CVE-2021-3148

salt: Command injection in salt.utils.thin.gen_thin()

Published Modified CWE 77
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 Hat6.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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

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.

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 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
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 18.04-ESMsalt2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1

References

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