Aggregates CVE and security vulnerability intelligence across all SaltStack-related products, including CVSS, EPSS, publication dates, and vulnerability intelligence data.
Disclosed issues often relate to vendor risk input validation, vendor risk sql injection, and vendor risk buffer overflow; exposure may include vendor impact memory corruption in vendor surface production workloads contexts.
| 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 | 0.75% | 2021-02-27 | 2024-11-21 |
| 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 | 0.80% | 2021-02-27 | 2024-11-21 |
| 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 | 1.41% | 2021-02-27 | 2024-11-21 |
| 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 | 44.94% | 2020-11-06 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2020-17490 | The TLS module within SaltStack Salt through 3002 creates certificates with weak file permissions. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 0.05% | 2020-11-06 | 2024-11-21 |
| 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 | 94.39% | 2020-11-06 | 2025-11-07 |
| 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 | 93.68% | 2020-04-30 | 2025-11-07 |
| 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 | 94.24% | 2020-04-30 | 2025-11-07 |
| 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 | 17.85% | 2020-01-17 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2013-2228 | SaltStack RSA Key Generation allows remote users to decrypt communications | [email protected] | 8.1 | 1.02% | 2019-12-03 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2019-1010259 | 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. | [email protected] | 9.8 | 0.37% | 2019-07-18 | 2024-11-21 |
| 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 | 0.62% | 2018-10-24 | 2024-11-21 |
| 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 | 0.92% | 2018-10-24 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2017-7893 | In SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.6, compromised salt-minions can impersonate the salt-master. | [email protected] | 9.8 | 0.49% | 2018-04-23 | 2024-11-21 |
| 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 | 1.85% | 2017-10-24 | 2026-05-13 |
| 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 | 0.33% | 2017-10-24 | 2026-05-13 |
| CVE-2015-6918 | salt before 2015.5.5 leaks git usernames and passwords to the log. | [email protected] | 6.3 | 0.33% | 2017-10-10 | 2026-05-13 |
| 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 | 0.97% | 2017-09-26 | 2026-05-13 |
| 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 | 0.48% | 2017-09-26 | 2026-05-13 |
| 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 | 0.23% | 2017-08-25 | 2026-05-13 |