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CVE-2019-17361

SaltStack Salt is vulnerable to command injection

9.8 CriticalFix available

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

15.2%Up 13.0 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 9.8

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.

Record
CVE-2019-17361
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0
6.8 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-77
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

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.

Record
CVE-2019-17361
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-0176 No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2020-0176
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-q53j-p6r2-g2v4 9.8

SaltStack Salt is vulnerable to command injection

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.

Record
GHSA-q53j-p6r2-g2v4
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-77
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2019-17361 9.8

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.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2019-17361
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-03
OSV 9.8

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.

Record
CVE-2019-17361
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVGHSA-q53j-p6r2-g2v4 9.8

SaltStack Salt is vulnerable to command injection

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.

Record
GHSA-q53j-p6r2-g2v4
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-77
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2019-17361 9.8

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.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17361
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2020:0357-1 No score

Security update for salt

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

  • Avoid possible user escalation upgrading salt-master (bsc#1157465) (CVE-2019-18897)
  • Fix unit tests failures in test_batch_async tests
  • Batch Async: Handle exceptions, properly unregister and close instances after running async batching to avoid CPU starvation of the MWorkers (bsc#1162327)
  • RHEL/CentOS 8 uses platform-python instead of python3
  • New configuration option for selection of grains in the minion start event.
  • Fix 'os_family' grain for Astra Linux Common Edition
  • Fix for salt-api NET API where unauthenticated attacker could run arbitrary code (CVE-2019-17361) (bsc#1162504)
  • Adds disabled parameter to mod_repo in aptpkg module Move token with atomic operation Bad API token files get deleted (bsc#1160931)
  • Support for Btrfs and XFS in parted and mkfs added
  • Adds list_downloaded for apt Module to enable pre-downloading support Adds virt.(pool|network)_get_xml functions
  • Various libvirt updates:
    • Add virt.pool_capabilities function
    • virt.pool_running improvements
    • Add virt.pool_deleted state
    • virt.network_define allow adding IP configuration
  • virt: adding kernel boot parameters to libvirt xml
  • Fix to scheduler when data['run'] does not exist (bsc#1159118)
  • Fix virt states to not fail on VMs already stopped
  • Fix applying of attributes for returner rawfile_json (bsc#1158940)
  • xfs: do not fail if type is not present (bsc#1153611)
  • Fix errors when running virt.get_hypervisor function
  • Align virt.full_info fixes with upstream Salt
  • Fix for log checking in x509 test
  • Read repo info without using interpolation (bsc#1135656)
  • Limiting M2Crypto to >= SLE15
  • Replacing pycrypto with M2Crypto (bsc#1165425)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2020:0357-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:11364-1 No score

python3-salt-3002.2-6.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the python3-salt-3002.2-6.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:11364-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVPYSEC-2020-177 No score

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.

Record
PYSEC-2020-177
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-RU-2020:0625-1 No score

Recommended update for Salt

This update fixes the following issues:

salt:

  • RHEL/CentOS 8 uses platform-python instead of python3
  • New configuration option for selection of grains in the minion start event.
  • Fix 'os_family' grain for Astra Linux Common Edition
  • Fix for salt-api NET API where unauthenticated attacker could run arbitrary code (CVE-2019-17361) (bsc#1162504)
  • Adds disabled parameter to mod_repo in aptpkg module
  • Move token with atomic operation
  • Bad API token files get deleted (bsc#1160931)
  • Support for Btrfs and XFS in parted and mkfs added
  • Adds list_downloaded for apt Module to enable pre-downloading support
  • Adds virt.(pool|network)_get_xml functions
  • Virt: adding kernel boot parameters to libvirt xml
  • Fix to scheduler when data['run'] does not exist (bsc#1159118)
  • Fix virt states to not fail on VMs already stopped
  • Fix applying of attributes for returner rawfile_json (bsc#1158940)
  • Xfs: do not fail if type is not present (bsc#1153611)
  • Don't use __python indirection macros on spec file %__python is no longer defined in RPM 4.15 (python2 is going EOL in Jan 2020); additionally, python/python3 are just binaries in the path.
  • Fix errors when running virt.get_hypervisor function
  • Align virt.full_info fixes with upstream Salt
  • Fix for log checking in x509 test
  • Prevent test_mod_del_repo_multiline_values to fail
  • Read repo info without using interpolation (bsc#1135656)
  • Replacing pycrypto with M2Crypto as dependency for >= SLE15 (bsc#1165425)
  • Batch Async: Handle exceptions, properly unregister and close instances after running async batching to avoid CPU starvation of the MWorkers (bsc#1162327)
  • Avoid possible user escalation upgrading salt-master (bsc#1157465) (CVE-2019-18897)
Record
SUSE-RU-2020:0625-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-RU-2020:0685-1 No score

Recommended update for Salt

This update fixes the following issues:

salt:

  • RHEL/CentOS 8 uses platform-python instead of python3
  • New configuration option for selection of grains in the minion start event.
  • Fix 'os_family' grain for Astra Linux Common Edition
  • Fix for salt-api NET API where unauthenticated attacker could run arbitrary code (CVE-2019-17361) (bsc#1162504)
  • Adds disabled parameter to mod_repo in aptpkg module
  • Move token with atomic operation
  • Bad API token files get deleted (bsc#1160931)
  • Support for Btrfs and XFS in parted and mkfs added
  • Adds list_downloaded for apt Module to enable pre-downloading support
  • Adds virt.(pool|network)_get_xml functions
  • Virt: adding kernel boot parameters to libvirt xml
  • Fix to scheduler when data['run'] does not exist (bsc#1159118)
  • Fix virt states to not fail on VMs already stopped
  • Fix applying of attributes for returner rawfile_json (bsc#1158940)
  • Xfs: do not fail if type is not present (bsc#1153611)
  • Don't use __python indirection macros on spec file %__python is no longer defined in RPM 4.15 (python2 is going EOL in Jan 2020); additionally, python/python3 are just binaries in the path.
  • Fix errors when running virt.get_hypervisor function
  • Align virt.full_info fixes with upstream Salt
  • Fix for log checking in x509 test
  • Prevent test_mod_del_repo_multiline_values to fail
  • Read repo info without using interpolation (bsc#1135656)
  • Replacing pycrypto with M2Crypto as dependency for >= SLE15 (bsc#1165425)
  • Batch Async: Handle exceptions, properly unregister and close instances after running async batching to avoid CPU starvation of the MWorkers (bsc#1162327)
  • Avoid possible user escalation upgrading salt-master (bsc#1157465) (CVE-2019-18897)
Record
SUSE-RU-2020:0685-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:0538-1 No score

Security Beta update for Salt

This update fixes the following issues:

salt:

Record
SUSE-SU-2020:0538-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:0540-1 No score

Security Beta update for Salt

This update fixes the following issues:

salt:

Record
SUSE-SU-2020:0540-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:0684-1 No score

Security update for salt

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

  • Avoid possible user escalation upgrading salt-master (bsc#1157465) (CVE-2019-18897)
  • Fix unit tests failures in test_batch_async tests
  • Batch Async: Handle exceptions, properly unregister and close instances after running async batching to avoid CPU starvation of the MWorkers (bsc#1162327)
  • RHEL/CentOS 8 uses platform-python instead of python3
  • New configuration option for selection of grains in the minion start event.
  • Fix 'os_family' grain for Astra Linux Common Edition
  • Fix for salt-api NET API where unauthenticated attacker could run arbitrary code (CVE-2019-17361) (bsc#1162504)
  • Adds disabled parameter to mod_repo in aptpkg module Move token with atomic operation Bad API token files get deleted (bsc#1160931)
  • Support for Btrfs and XFS in parted and mkfs added
  • Adds list_downloaded for apt Module to enable pre-downloading support Adds virt.(pool|network)_get_xml functions
  • Various libvirt updates:
    • Add virt.pool_capabilities function
    • virt.pool_running improvements
    • Add virt.pool_deleted state
    • virt.network_define allow adding IP configuration
  • virt: adding kernel boot parameters to libvirt xml
  • Fix to scheduler when data['run'] does not exist (bsc#1159118)
  • Fix virt states to not fail on VMs already stopped
  • Fix applying of attributes for returner rawfile_json (bsc#1158940)
  • xfs: do not fail if type is not present (bsc#1153611)
  • Fix errors when running virt.get_hypervisor function
  • Align virt.full_info fixes with upstream Salt
  • Fix for log checking in x509 test
  • Read repo info without using interpolation (bsc#1135656)
  • Limiting M2Crypto to >= SLE15
  • Replacing pycrypto with M2Crypto (bsc#1165425)
Record
SUSE-SU-2020:0684-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-4459-1 No score

salt vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Salt allows remote attackers to determine which files exist on the server. An attacker could use that to extract sensitive information. (CVE-2018-15750)

It was discovered that Salt has a vulnerability that allows an user to bypass authentication. An attacker could use that to extract sensitive information, execute abritrary code or crash the server. (CVE-2018-15751)

It was discovered that Salt 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. (CVE-2019-17361)

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly validated method calls and sanitized paths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to access some methods without authentication. (CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-11652)

Record
USN-4459-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
salt
PyPI
before 2019.2.3
2019.2.3
salt
Alpine:v3.12
before 2019.2.3-r0
2019.2.3-r0
salt
Alpine:v3.13
before 2019.2.3-r0
2019.2.3-r0
salt
Alpine:v3.14
before 2019.2.3-r0
2019.2.3-r0
salt
Alpine:v3.15
before 2019.2.3-r0
2019.2.3-r0
salt
Alpine:v3.16
before 2019.2.3-r0
2019.2.3-r0
salt
Alpine:v3.17
before 2019.2.3-r0
2019.2.3-r0
salt
Alpine:v3.18
before 2019.2.3-r0
2019.2.3-r0
salt
Alpine:v3.19
before 2019.2.3-r0
2019.2.3-r0
salt
Alpine:v3.20
before 2019.2.3-r0
2019.2.3-r0
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
salt
Alpine:v3.21
before 2019.2.3-r0
2019.2.3-r0
salt
Alpine:v3.22
before 2019.2.3-r0
2019.2.3-r0
salt
Alpine:v3.23
before 2019.2.3-r0
2019.2.3-r0
salt
Alpine:v3.24
before 2019.2.3-r0
2019.2.3-r0
salt
Debian:9
before 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u3, plus listed versions
2016.11.2+ds-12016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u12016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u2
2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u3
salt
Debian:10
before 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u1, plus listed versions
2018.3.4+dfsg1-6
2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u1
salt
PyPI
before 2019.2.3, plus listed versions
0.10.00.10.10.10.20.10.30.10.4
Show 45 moreShow less
0.10.50.11.00.11.10.12.00.12.10.13.00.13.10.13.20.13.30.14.00.14.10.15.00.15.10.15.20.15.30.15.900.16.00.16.10.16.20.16.30.16.40.17.00.17.0rc10.17.10.17.20.17.30.17.40.17.50.8.70.8.90.9.00.9.10.9.20.9.30.9.40.9.50.9.60.9.70.9.80.9.90.9.9.12014.1.02014.1.0rc12014.1.0rc22014.1.0rc3
2019.2.3
salt
PyPI
before 2019.2.1, plus listed versions
0.10.00.10.10.10.20.10.30.10.4
Show 45 moreShow less
0.10.50.11.00.11.10.12.00.12.10.13.00.13.10.13.20.13.30.14.00.14.10.15.00.15.10.15.20.15.30.15.900.16.00.16.10.16.20.16.30.16.40.17.00.17.0rc10.17.10.17.20.17.30.17.40.17.50.8.70.8.90.9.00.9.10.9.20.9.30.9.40.9.50.9.60.9.70.9.80.9.90.9.9.12014.1.02014.1.0rc12014.1.0rc22014.1.0rc3
2019.2.1
salt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS
before 2019.2.0-5.64.1
2019.2.0-5.64.1
salt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS
before 2019.2.0-5.64.1
2019.2.0-5.64.1
salt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS
before 2019.2.0-5.64.1
2019.2.0-5.64.1
salt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
before 2019.2.0-5.64.1
2019.2.0-5.64.1
salt
SUSE:Manager Client Tools 12
before 2019.2.0-46.88.1
2019.2.0-46.88.1
salt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Advanced Systems Management 12
before 2019.2.0-46.88.1
2019.2.0-46.88.1
salt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2
before 2019.2.0-46.88.1
2019.2.0-46.88.1
salt
SUSE:Manager Proxy 3.2
before 2019.2.0-46.88.1
2019.2.0-46.88.1
salt
SUSE:Manager Server 3.2
before 2019.2.0-46.88.1
2019.2.0-46.88.1
salt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1
before 2019.2.0-6.24.1
2019.2.0-6.24.1
salt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Python 2 15 SP1
before 2019.2.0-6.24.1
2019.2.0-6.24.1
salt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP1
before 2019.2.0-6.24.1
2019.2.0-6.24.1
salt
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
0.16.0-10.16.4-20.17.1+dfsg-10.17.2-10.17.2-2
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0.17.2-30.17.4-10.17.4-20.17.5-10.17.5+ds-10.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm10.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm20.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm40.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm5
None known
salt
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1, plus listed versions
2015.5.3+ds-12015.8.1+ds-22015.8.3+ds-12015.8.3+ds-22015.8.3+ds-32015.8.5+ds-12015.8.7+ds-12015.8.8+ds-1
2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1
salt
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
before 2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2, plus listed versions
2016.11.5+ds-12016.11.8+dfsg1-12017.7.2+dfsg1-2ubuntu12017.7.3+dfsg1-12017.7.4+dfsg1-12017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.1
2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2
salt
openSUSE:Leap 15.1
before 2019.2.0-lp151.5.12.1
2019.2.0-lp151.5.12.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, aliases, referencesOSV
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2019-17361 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in Saltstack Salt, published January 17, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 15.2%, the 96th percentile. Fixed in salt 2019.2.3.

References

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