In SaltStack Salt 2016.9 through 3002.6, a command injection vulnerability exists in the snapper module that allows for local privilege escalation on a minion. The attack requires that a file is created with a pathname that is backed up by snapper, and that the master calls the snapper.diff function (which executes popen unsafely).
{ "nvd_published_at": "2021-04-23T06:15:00Z", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-77", "CWE-78" ], "severity": "HIGH", "github_reviewed": true, "github_reviewed_at": "2022-06-23T06:37:59Z" }