SaltStack Salt is vulnerable to command injection

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2019-17361 · GHSA-q53j-p6r2-g2v4 · PYSEC-2020-177 · Published 17/01/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
salt PyPI	`< 2019.2.1< 2019.2.3`	`2019.2.12019.2.3`
salt saltstack	`≤ 2019.2.0`	No fix yet

Description

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.

NVD description

In SaltStack Salt through 2019.2.0, 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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17361 · ADVISORY
docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.3.html · WEB
pypa/advisory-database · WEB
saltstack/salt · PACKAGE
usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1 · WEB
debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676 · WEB
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00026.html · WEB
saltstack/salt · Patch
usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1 · Third Party Advisory
GitHub Advisory GHSA-q53j-p6r2-g2v4 · ADVISORY

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