THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-17361
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2019-17361

Salt vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
15.1%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
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 vendor
Saltstack
Affected product
Salt
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2020-01-17

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 15.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Saltstack Salt is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-17361.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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