This page lists publicly disclosed CVE vulnerabilities affecting saltstack salt (linked via NVD CPE). Each row includes severity scores, summaries, and publication dates to help identify and analyze security issues.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2020-35662 | In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, when authenticating to services using certain modules, the SSL certificate is not always validated. | [email protected] | 7.4 | 2.95% | 2021-02-27 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-28972 | In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, authentication to VMware vcenter, vsphere, and esxi servers (in the vmware.py files) does not always validate the SSL/TLS certificate. | [email protected] | 5.9 | 3.09% | 2021-02-27 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-28243 | An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The minion's restartcheck is vulnerable to command injection via a crafted process name. This allows for a local privilege escalation by any user able to create a files on the minion in a non-blacklisted directory. | [email protected] | 7.8 | 4.30% | 2021-02-27 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-25592 | In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens. A user can bypass authentication and invoke Salt SSH. | [email protected] | 9.8 | 57.45% | 2020-11-06 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-17490 | The TLS module within SaltStack Salt through 3002 creates certificates with weak file permissions. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 0.41% | 2020-11-06 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-16846 KEV | An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt through 3002. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API, with the SSH client enabled, can result in shell injection. | [email protected] | 9.8 | 99.59% | 2020-11-06 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-11652 KEV | An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class allows access to some methods that improperly sanitize paths. These methods allow arbitrary directory access to authenticated users. | [email protected] | 6.5 | 86.06% | 2020-04-30 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-11651 KEV | An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class does not properly validate method calls. This allows a remote user to access some methods without authentication. These methods can be used to retrieve user tokens from the salt master and/or run arbitrary commands on salt minions. | [email protected] | 9.8 | 96.41% | 2020-04-30 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2019-17361 | 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. | [email protected] | 9.8 | 15.11% | 2020-01-16 | 2026-06-16 |
| 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). | [email protected] | 9.8 | 5.20% | 2018-10-24 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2018-15750 | Directory Traversal vulnerability in salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2017.7.8 and 2018.3.x before 2018.3.3 allows remote attackers to determine which files exist on the server. | [email protected] | 5.3 | 4.24% | 2018-10-24 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2017-7893 | In SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.6, compromised salt-minions can impersonate the salt-master. | [email protected] | 9.8 | 1.40% | 2018-04-23 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2017-14696 | SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted authentication request. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 2.74% | 2017-10-24 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2017-14695 | Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation in SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-12791. | [email protected] | 9.8 | 2.57% | 2017-10-24 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2017-5200 | Salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2 allows arbitrary command execution on a salt-master via Salt's ssh_client. | [email protected] | 8.8 | 3.21% | 2017-09-26 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2017-5192 | When using the local_batch client from salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2, external authentication is not respected, enabling all authentication to be bypassed. | [email protected] | 8.8 | 1.68% | 2017-09-26 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2015-4017 | Salt before 2014.7.6 does not verify certificates when connecting via the aliyun, proxmox, and splunk modules. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 1.05% | 2017-08-25 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2017-12791 | Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation in SaltStack Salt before 2016.11.7 and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.1 allows remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID. | [email protected] | 9.8 | 4.63% | 2017-08-23 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2017-8109 | The salt-ssh minion code in SaltStack Salt 2016.11 before 2016.11.4 copied over configuration from the Salt Master without adjusting permissions, which might leak credentials to local attackers on configured minions (clients). | [email protected] | 7.8 | 0.43% | 2017-04-25 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2015-1839 | modules/chef.py in SaltStack before 2014.7.4 does not properly handle files in /tmp. | [email protected] | 5.3 | 0.43% | 2017-04-13 | 2026-06-16 |