{
    "id": "CVE-2021-3197",
    "published": "2021-02-27 05:15:14",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-17 04:04:49",
    "cvss_score": "9.8",
    "cvss_severity": "CRITICAL",
    "cvss_version": "3.1",
    "cvss_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "cwe": "CWE-74",
    "description": "An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt-api's ssh client is vulnerable to a shell injection by including ProxyCommand in an argument, or via ssh_options provided in an API request.",
    "epss_score": "0.72327",
    "epss_percentile": "0.99422",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 0,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-26 18:48:31",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "EPSS 72.3% — above the 10% action threshold."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "debian",
            "product": "debian_linux"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "fedoraproject",
            "product": "fedora"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "saltstack",
            "product": "salt"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [],
    "refs_list": [
        "https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/",
        "https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011",
        "https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/",
        "https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011"
    ]
}