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CVE-2019-17361

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 15.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-01-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-77

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1
• VMware SALT: through 2019.2.0

References

• 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
• 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

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