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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-15751 json

SaltStack Salt Remote command execution and incorrect access control when using salt-api

published 2018-10-24 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-x549-r7m8-gv63 , PYSEC-2018-30 , EUVD-2018-0134

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.0%
EPSS 5.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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).

Patch / fix

  • pypi salt 2016.11.10, 2017.7.8, 2018.3.3
  • saltstack salt 2017.7.8, 2018.3.3
  • salt Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2
  • salt Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15751

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • salt SLES 15 SP1-BCL, SLE Module for Transactional Server 15 SP2, SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP2 +10 more 3002.2-37.1
  • python-distro SLE Module for Python 2 15 SP3, SLE Module for Python 2 15 SP2, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 +2 more 1.5.0-3.5.1
  • salt SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP1, SLE Module for Python 2 15 SP1, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 3000-6.37.1
  • salt SLE Point of Sale 12 SP2, SLE Module for Advanced Systems Management 12, Manager Server 3.2 +6 more 2018.3.0-46.44.1
  • salt SLE Module for Server Applications 15, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 2018.3.0-5.20.1
  • py26-compat-salt Manager Server 3.2 2016.11.10-6.15.1
  • salt SLES 11 SP4-CLIENT-TOOLS, SLES 11 SP3-CLIENT-TOOLS 2016.11.10-43.38.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:2106-1SUSE-SU-2021:2105-1SUSE-SU-2020:1974-1SUSE-SU-2018:3862-1SUSE-SU-2018:3815-1SUSE-SU-2018:3816-1

  • python-distro openSUSE Leap 15.3 1.5.0-3.5.1
  • salt openSUSE Leap 15.2 3002.2-lp152.3.36.1
  • salt openSUSE Leap 15.1 3000-lp151.5.21.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2021:2106-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0899-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1074-1

  • salt Alpine 3.8 2018.3.3-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-15751

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-15751 updated cvss 9.8

salt: Remote command execution and incorrect access control when using salt-api

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 salt, salt-minion Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 heketi Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 atomic-openshift, cluster-autoscaler, atomic-openshift-pod, atomic-openshift-node, atomic-openshift-tests, atomic-openshift-master, +8 more Red Hat Storage 3 heketi, heketi-client, python-heketi
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

5.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi salt
>=2017.7.0, <2017.7.8
>=2018.3.0, <2018.3.3
>=2016.11.0, <2016.11.10
<2017.7.8
2017.7.8
2018.3.3
2016.11.10

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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