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SaltStack Salt REST API Arbitrary Command Execution

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Disclosed
Nov 3, 2020
Created
Nov 12, 2020

Description

This module exploits an authentication bypass and command injection in
SaltStack Salt's REST API to execute commands as the root user.

The following versions have received a patch: 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13,
2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.6, 2016.11.10,
2017.7.4, 2017.7.8, 2018.3.5, 2019.2.5, 2019.2.6, 3000.3, 3000.4,
3001.1, 3001.2, and 3002.

Tested against 2019.2.3 from Vulhub and 3002 on Ubuntu 20.04.1.

Authors

KPC
wvu [email protected]

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd, x86, x64

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/linux/http/saltstack_salt_api_cmd_exec
    msf exploit(saltstack_salt_api_cmd_exec) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(saltstack_salt_api_cmd_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(saltstack_salt_api_cmd_exec) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(saltstack_salt_api_cmd_exec) > exploit
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