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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2018-15750 json

SaltStack Salt Directory Traversal vulnerability in salt-api

published 2018-10-24 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-jx34-pppm-gjvr , PYSEC-2018-29 , EUVD-2018-0133

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.4%
EPSS 4.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi salt 2016.11.10, 2017.7.8, 2018.3.3
  • saltstack salt 2017.7.8, 2018.3.3
  • salt Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2
  • salt Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15750

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  • salt SLES 15 SP1-BCL, SLE Module for Transactional Server 15 SP2, SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP2 +10 more 3002.2-37.1
  • python-distro SLE Module for Python 2 15 SP3, SLE Module for Python 2 15 SP2, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 +2 more 1.5.0-3.5.1
  • salt SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP1, SLE Module for Python 2 15 SP1, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 3000-6.37.1
  • salt SLE Point of Sale 12 SP2, SLE Module for Advanced Systems Management 12, Manager Server 3.2 +6 more 2018.3.0-46.44.1
  • salt SLE Module for Server Applications 15, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 2018.3.0-5.20.1
  • py26-compat-salt Manager Server 3.2 2016.11.10-6.15.1
  • salt SLES 11 SP4-CLIENT-TOOLS, SLES 11 SP3-CLIENT-TOOLS 2016.11.10-43.38.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:2106-1SUSE-SU-2021:2105-1SUSE-SU-2020:1974-1SUSE-SU-2018:3862-1SUSE-SU-2018:3815-1SUSE-SU-2018:3816-1

  • python-distro openSUSE Leap 15.3 1.5.0-3.5.1
  • salt openSUSE Leap 15.2 3002.2-lp152.3.36.1
  • salt openSUSE Leap 15.1 3000-lp151.5.21.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2021:2106-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0899-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1074-1

  • salt Alpine 3.8 2018.3.3-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-15750

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-15750 updated cvss 5.3

salt: Directory traversal in salt-api allows remote attackers to identitfy arbitrary files

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 salt, salt-minion Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 heketi Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 atomic-openshift, cluster-autoscaler, atomic-openshift-pod, atomic-openshift-node, atomic-openshift-tests, atomic-openshift-master, +8 more Red Hat Storage 3 heketi, heketi-client, python-heketi
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

4.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi salt
>=2017.7.0, <2017.7.8
>=2018.3.0, <2018.3.3
>=2016.11.0, <2016.11.10
<2017.7.8
2017.7.8
2018.3.3
2016.11.10

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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