Rapid7

module

SaltStack Salt REST API Arbitrary Command Execution

Disclosed
Nov 3, 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.
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