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CVE-2018-15751

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-10-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

SaltStack Salt before 2017.7.8 and 2018.3.x before 2018.3.3 allow remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands via salt-api(netapi).

Affected products

• VMware SALT: before 2017.7.8; from 2018.3.0 before 2018.3.3 — fixed in 2017.7.8, 2018.3.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: VMware SALT 2017.7.8, 2018.3.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00070.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2017.7/topics/releases/2017.7.8.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2018.3.3.html
• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/salt-users/L9xqcJ0UXxs/qgDj42obBQAJ
• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/salt-users/dimVF7rpphY/jn3Xv3MbBQAJ
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00024.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00070.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2017.7/topics/releases/2017.7.8.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2018.3.3.html
• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/salt-users/L9xqcJ0UXxs/qgDj42obBQAJ
• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/salt-users/dimVF7rpphY/jn3Xv3MbBQAJ

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