An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API can result in salt.utils.thin.genthin() command injection because of different handling of single versus double quotes. This is related to salt/utils/thin.py.
In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, eauth tokens can be used once after expiration. (They might be used to run command against the salt master or minions.)
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt-api's ssh client is vulnerable to a shell injection by including ProxyCommand in an argument, or via sshoptions provided in an API request.
An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The jinja renderer does not protect against server side template injection attacks.
An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt-api does not honor eauth credentials for the wheelasync client. Thus, an attacker can remotely run any wheel modules on the master.
In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens. A user can bypass authentication and invoke Salt SSH.
An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt.wheel.pillarroots.write method is vulnerable to directory traversal.
An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt.modules.cmdmod can log credentials to the info or error log level.
A user could use shell injections with the Salt API using the SSH Client.
In SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.3, 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.
Last updated 8 August 2024
In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, when authenticating to services using certain modules, the SSL certificate is not always validated.
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.
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.