{"id":"CVE-2019-17361","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-17361","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T02:26:10.459Z","title":"In SaltStack Salt through 2019.2.0, the salt-api NET API with the ssh client enabled is vulnerable to command injection.","description":"In SaltStack Salt through 2019.2.0, the salt-api NET API with the ssh client enabled is vulnerable to command injection. This allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the API endpoint to execute arbitrary code on the salt-api host.","published":"2020-01-17T02:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:23:49.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-77"],"affected":["saltstack/salt","debian/debian linux","opensuse/leap","canonical/ubuntu linux"],"epss":{"score":0.1516,"percentile":0.96749,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 15.2%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00026.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.3.html#security-fix","tags":["Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits/master","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00026.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.3.html#security-fix","tags":["Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits/master","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17361","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}