CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-15751

Improper Authentication

Published: Oct 24, 2018 | Modified: Aug 20, 2020
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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).

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Salt Saltstack * 2017.7.8 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2018.3.0 (including) 2018.3.3 (excluding)
Salt Ubuntu bionic *
Salt Ubuntu cosmic *
Salt Ubuntu disco *
Salt Ubuntu eoan *
Salt Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Salt Ubuntu hirsute *
Salt Ubuntu impish *
Salt Ubuntu upstream *
Salt Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References