CVE-2019-1010259 — SaltStack Salt 2018

SaltStack Salt 2018.3, 2019.2 is affected by: SQL Injection. The impact is: An attacker could escalate privileges on MySQL server deployed by cloud provider. It leads to RCE. The component is: The mysql.user_chpass function from the MySQL module for Salt. The attack vector is: sp

01What is this vulnerability?

SaltStack Salt 2018.3, 2019.2 is affected by: SQL Injection. The impact is: An attacker could escalate privileges on MySQL server deployed by cloud provider. It leads to RCE. The component is: The mysql.user_chpass function from the MySQL module for Salt. The attack vector is: specially crafted password string. The fixed version is: 2018.3.4.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
SaltStack	Salt	2018.3, 2019.2 [fixed: 2018.3.4]

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: 2019-07-18T16:33:35.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T03:07:18.507Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/f22de0887cd7167887f113bf394244b74fb36b6b/…
• github.com — https://github.com/ShantonRU/salt/commit/a46c86a987c78e74e87969d8d3b27094e6544b7…
• github.com — https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/51462