{"answers":{"affected":"19 open source packages ship an affected version, including salt. It affects 3 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-3197 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade salt to a fixed version for your release line: 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4 or 2016.3.6.","what":"CVE-2021-3197 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 27 Feb 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-3197 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-3197 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 27 Feb 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-3197 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- salt (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.5, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.8, 2019.2.0rc1, 2019.2.5, 2019.2.8, 3000.6, 3001.4, 3002.5\n- salt (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2015.8.13\n- salt (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2015.8.13\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2016.11.7; fixed in 2016.11.10\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2016.11.7; fixed in 2016.11.10\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2016.3.0; fixed in 2016.11.5\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2016.3.0; fixed in 2016.11.5\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2017.5.0; fixed in 2017.7.8\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2017.5.0; fixed in 2017.7.8\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2018.2.0 up to 2018.3.5; no fix listed\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2018.2.0 up to 2018.3.5; no fix listed\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2019.2.0; fixed in 2019.2.8\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-3197/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-3197/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-3197","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-3197/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-3197","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-8rp6-x3r7-5qw3","PYSEC-2021-57","UBUNTU-CVE-2021-3197"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"SaltStack Salt","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can execute arbitrary commands via shell injection in the salt-api ssh client using ProxyCommand or ssh_options.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"command_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"fedora","vendor":"fedoraproject"},{"product":"salt","vendor":"saltstack"}],"cvss":{"score":9.8,"severity":"critical","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-74","name":"Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component"}],"description":"An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. 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bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2021-3196"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2021-02-27","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"PyPA Advisory Database","prefix":"PYSEC"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-03","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Attackers can execute arbitrary commands via shell injection in the salt-api ssh client using ProxyCommand or ssh_options.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-3197/"}