PYSEC-2020-104

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    PYSEC-2020-104

    Published: 6 Nov 2020Last Modified: 10 Jun 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases, https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13, http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html, https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1380/, https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1379/, https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1383/, https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1381/, https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1382/, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html, https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3w

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: salt

    Purl: pkg:pypi/salt

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2015.8.10

    Affected versions

    0.10.0
    0.10.1
    0.10.2
    0.10.3
    0.10.4
    0.10.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    PYSEC-2020-104 | CVE-DB