CVE-2019-1010259

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SaltStack Salt 2018.3, 2019.2 is affected by: SQL Injection. The impact is: An attacker could escalate privileges on MySQL server deployed by cloud provider. It leads to RCE. The component is: The mysql.user_chpass function from the MySQL module for Salt. The attack vector is: specially crafted password string. The fixed version is: 2018.3.4.

Published: 2019-07-18 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2019-1010259 is rated High Exploit Risk (82.6/100): CVSS Critical severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.88%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.51% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2019-1010259

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2019-1010259

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.37% 1.88% +1.51%
2 2025-03-30 0.92% 0.37% -0.55%
3 2025-03-29 — 0.92% —

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2019-1010259

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
9.8 3.0 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 3.9 5.9 [email protected]
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2019-1010259

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2019-1010259

GHSA-h8xp-h3jf-wv4v · Severity: critical · Ecosystem: pip — SaltStack Salt SQL Injection vulnerability in mysql.user_chpass function

OS Trackers for CVE-2019-1010259

vendor priority summary link
suse medium CVE-2019-1010259 severity moderate: SUSE including 15 source package names (python2-salt, python3-salt, …), 74 product×package rows across 13 product lines (Magnum Orchestration 7, SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0, … (13 product lines)): Known Not Affected 74. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1010259/
ubuntu medium CVE-2019-1010259 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (salt), 16 status rows across 16 suites (bionic, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 8, DNE 7, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-1010259

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2019-1010259

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
saltstack salt_2018 3.0 cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt_2018:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt_2019 2.0 cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt_2019:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2019-1010259

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