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CVE-2019-17361
SaltStack Salt is vulnerable to command injection
Impact
In SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.3, the salt-api NET API with the ssh client enabled is vulnerable to command injection. This allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the API endpoint to execute arbitrary code on the salt-api host.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| pip | salt | < 2019.2.3 | 2019.2.3 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Saltstack | Salt | through 2019.2.0 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Versions 9.0, 10.0 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Version 15.1 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 16.04, 18.04 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00026.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.3.html#security-fix
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits/master
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q53j-p6r2-g2v4
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17361
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2020-177.yaml