CVE-2019-17361

high-risk
Published 2020-01-17

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.

Do I need to act?

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18.5% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 81% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (6)

Affected Vendors

Debian Canonical Opensuse Saltstack

References (10)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00026.html
Release Notes https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.3.html#security-fix
Patch https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits/master
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00026.html
Release Notes https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.3.html#security-fix
Patch https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits/master
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676
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high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 13/34 · Low
Exposure 13/34 · Low