CVE-2018-15750 — Directory Traversal vulnerability in salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2017

Directory Traversal vulnerability in salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2017.7.8 and 2018.3.x before 2018.3.3 allows remote attackers to determine which files exist on the server.

01What is this vulnerability?

Directory Traversal vulnerability in salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2017.7.8 and 2018.3.x before 2018.3.3 allows remote attackers to determine which files exist on the server.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-10-24T22:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:01:54.645Z

09References

• docs.saltstack.com — https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2017.7/topics/releases/2017.7.8.html
• docs.saltstack.com — https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2018.3.3.html
• groups.google.com — https://groups.google.com/d/msg/salt-users/L9xqcJ0UXxs/qgDj42obBQAJ
• groups.google.com — https://groups.google.com/d/msg/salt-users/dimVF7rpphY/jn3Xv3MbBQAJ
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00070.html
• lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00024.html
• usn.ubuntu.com — https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/