CVE-2018-15751
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).
02 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).
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.90% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 92.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Critical. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-10-24 22:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 10:01Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-08-23
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3e181b53deb0fb89eda46511508a007fb80f7cbc2d99af2ba33326c6dacba1ec
05 Affected products
06 References
- docs.saltstack.comhttps://docs.saltstack.com/en/2017.7/topics/releases/2017.7.8.html
- docs.saltstack.comhttps://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2018.3.3.html
- groups.google.com[salt-users] 20181024 2018.3.3 Released - Security Advisoryhttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/salt-users/L9xqcJ0UXxs/qgDj42obBQAJ
- groups.google.com[salt-users] 20181024 2017.7.8 Released - Security Advisoryhttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/salt-users/dimVF7rpphY/jn3Xv3MbBQAJ
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1074http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00070.html
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200728 [SECURITY] [DLA 2294-1] salt security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00024.html
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4459-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- salt Fixed in 2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- salt Fixed in 2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.