CVE-2019-17361

Publication date 17 January 2020

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
salt 25.10 questing Not in release
25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
19.10 eoan Ignored end of life
19.04 disco Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Vulnerable

Patch details

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Package Patch details
salt

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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