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PYSEC-2020-177

Quick fix

PYSEC-2020-177 — salt: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'salt>=2019.2.1'

Details

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.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

PyPI/salt

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2019.2.1

Fixpip install --upgrade 'salt>=2019.2.1'

References

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.3.html#security-fix[WEB]
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits/master[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00026.html[WEB]
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676[ADVISORY]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q53j-p6r2-g2v4[ADVISORY]