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Improper Authentication in SaltStack Salt

  • Disclosed: 08.09.2021
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 11:20

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. The salt minion installer will accept and use a minion config file at C:\salt\conf if that file is in place before the installer is run. This allows for a malicious actor to subvert the proper behaviour of the given minion software.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) salt < 3003.3 3003.3

References

CVSS score 6.4/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-287
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
salt
Disclosed
08.09.2021
Updated
11.10.2026 11:20

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2021-346 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-xf37-qcvf-7m57 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: salt

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (69) in the archive
Total entries
69
First → latest
11.2013 01.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
3

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 17
  • High 32
  • Medium 16
  • Low 2
  • Unrated 2

Disclosures per year

earlier: 8

Severity:
  1. Salt Authentication Protocol Version Downgrade Allows Minion Impersonation
    High · 6.2 CVE-2025-62349 >= 3006.12, < 3006.17, >= 3007.4, < 3007.9 3006.17, 3007.9
  2. Salt junos Module Vulnerable to Code Injection via Specially Crafted YAML Payload
    High · 7.8 CVE-2025-62348 < 3006.17 3006.17
  3. Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in file receiving method
    Critical · 9.6 CVE-2024-38824 >= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12, >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4 3006.12, 3007.4
  4. Salt vulnerable to arbitrary event injection
    High · 8.1 CVE-2025-22239 >= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12, >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4 3006.12, 3007.4
  5. Salt has minion event bus authorization bypass vulnerability
    High · 8.1 CVE-2025-22236 >= 3007.0, < 3007.4, >= 3006.0, < 3006.12 3007.4, 3006.12
  6. Path traversal in saltstack
    High · 7.7 CVE-2024-22232 < 3005.5, >= 3006.0, < 3006.6 3005.5, 3006.6
  7. Git Providers can read from the wrong environment because they get the same cache directory base name in Salt masters prior to 3005.2 or 3006.2. Anything that uses Git Providers with different environ
    High · 7.8 CVE-2023-20898 >= 3006.0, < 3006.2, < 3005.2 3006.2, 3005.2
  8. Salt's PAM auth fails to reject locked accounts
    High · 7.5 CVE-2022-22967 < 3002.9, >= 3003.0, < 3003.5, >= 3004.0, < 3004.2 3002.9, 3003.5, 3004.2
  9. SaltStack RSA Key Generation allows remote users to decrypt communications
    High · 8.1 CVE-2013-2228 < 0.15.1 0.15.1
  10. An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. Salt Masters do not sign pillar data with the minion’s public key, which can result in attackers substituting arbit
    High · 8.8 CVE-2022-22934 < 3002.8 3002.8
  11. An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. When configured as a Master-of-Masters, with a publisher_acl, if a user configured in the publisher_acl targets any
    High · 8.8 CVE-2022-22941 < 3002.8 3002.8
  12. An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. Job publishes and file server replies are susceptible to replay attacks, which can result in an attacker replaying
    High · 8.8 CVE-2022-22936 < 3002.8 3002.8
  13. Improper Authentication in SaltStack Salt this entry
    High · 6.4 CVE-2021-22004 < 3003.3 3003.3
  14. Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in salt
    High · 7.5 CVE-2021-21996 < 3003.3 3003.3
  15. Command Injection in SaltStack Salt
    High · 7.8 CVE-2021-31607 >= 2016.11.0, < 3003rc1 3003rc1
  16. CWE - CWE-287: Improper Authentication vulnerability in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP 3; openSUSE Tumbleweed allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code via salt without the need to specify
    High · 7.8 CVE-2021-25315 < 3002.2 3002.2
  17. An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method is vulnerable to directory traversal.
    High · 9.1 CVE-2021-25282 < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.5, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2019.2.0rc1, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 2019.2.6, < 2019.2.8, >= 3000, < 3000.6, >= 3001, < 3001.4, >= 3002, < 3002.5 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.5, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.8, 2019.2.0rc1, 2019.2.5, 2019.2.8, 3000.6, 3001.4, 3002.5
  18. In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, authentication to VMware vcenter, vsphere, and esxi servers (in the vmware.py files) does not always validate the SSL/TLS certificate.
    High · 5.9 CVE-2020-28972 < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.5, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2019.2.0rc1, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 2019.2.6, < 2019.2.8, >= 3000, < 3000.6, >= 3001, < 3001.4, >= 3002, < 3002.5 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.5, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.8, 2019.2.0rc1, 2019.2.5, 2019.2.8, 3000.6, 3001.4, 3002.5
  19. An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt-api's ssh client is vulnerable to a shell injection by including ProxyCommand in an argument, or via ssh_options provided in an API re
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2021-3197 < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.5, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2019.2.0rc1, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 2019.2.6, < 2019.2.8, >= 3000, < 3000.6, >= 3001, < 3001.4, >= 3002, < 3002.5 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.5, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.8, 2019.2.0rc1, 2019.2.5, 2019.2.8, 3000.6, 3001.4, 3002.5
  20. An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The jinja renderer does not protect against server side template injection attacks.
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2021-25283 < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.5, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2019.2.0rc1, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 2019.2.6, < 2019.2.8, >= 3000, < 3000.6, >= 3001, < 3001.4, >= 3002, < 3002.5 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.5, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.8, 2019.2.0rc1, 2019.2.5, 2019.2.8, 3000.6, 3001.4, 3002.5
  21. An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt-api does not honor eauth credentials for the wheel_async client. Thus, an attacker can remotely run any wheel modules on the maste
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2021-25281 < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.5, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2019.2.0rc1, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 2019.2.6, < 2019.2.8, >= 3000, < 3000.6, >= 3001, < 3001.4, >= 3002, < 3002.5 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.5, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.8, 2019.2.0rc1, 2019.2.5, 2019.2.8, 3000.6, 3001.4, 3002.5
  22. In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, eauth tokens can be used once after expiration. (They might be used to run command against the salt master or minions.)
    Critical · 9.1 CVE-2021-3144 < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.5, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2019.2.0rc1, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 2019.2.6, < 2019.2.8, >= 3000, < 3000.6, >= 3001, < 3001.4, >= 3002, < 3002.5 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.5, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.8, 2019.2.0rc1, 2019.2.5, 2019.2.8, 3000.6, 3001.4, 3002.5
  23. An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API can result in salt.utils.thin.gen_thin() command injection because of different handling of single
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2021-3148 < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.5, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2019.2.0rc1, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 2019.2.6, < 2019.2.8, >= 3000, < 3000.6, >= 3001, < 3001.4, >= 3002, < 3002.5 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.5, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.8, 2019.2.0rc1, 2019.2.5, 2019.2.8, 3000.6, 3001.4, 3002.5
  24. An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The minion's restartcheck is vulnerable to command injection via a crafted process name. This allows for a local privilege escalation by any us
    High · 7.8 CVE-2020-28243 < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.5, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2019.2.0rc1, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 2019.2.6, < 2019.2.8, >= 3000, < 3000.6, >= 3001, < 3001.4, >= 3002, < 3002.5 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.5, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.8, 2019.2.0rc1, 2019.2.5, 2019.2.8, 3000.6, 3001.4, 3002.5
  25. In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, when authenticating to services using certain modules, the SSL certificate is not always validated.
    High · 7.4 CVE-2020-35662 < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.5, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2019.2.0rc1, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 2019.2.6, < 2019.2.8, >= 3000, < 3000.6, >= 3001, < 3001.4, >= 3002, < 3002.5 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.5, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.8, 2019.2.0rc1, 2019.2.5, 2019.2.8, 3000.6, 3001.4, 3002.5
  26. An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt through 3002. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API, with the SSH client enabled, can result in shell injection.
    Critical · 9.8 Exploited in attacks CVE-2020-16846 < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.6, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.4, >= 2017.7.5, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2018.3.5, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 3000, < 3000.3 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.6, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.4, 2017.7.8, 2018.3.5, 2019.2.5, 3000.3
  27. In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens. A user can bypass authentication and invoke Salt SSH.
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2020-25592 < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.6, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.4, >= 2017.7.5, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2018.3.5, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 3000, < 3000.3 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.6, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.4, 2017.7.8, 2018.3.5, 2019.2.5, 3000.3
  28. An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class allows access to some methods that improperly sanitize paths. These methods a
    High · 6.5 Exploited in attacks CVE-2020-11652 < 2019.2.4, >= 3000, < 3000.2 2019.2.4, 3000.2
  29. An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class does not properly validate method calls. This allows a remote user to access
    Critical · 9.8 Exploited in attacks CVE-2020-11651 < 2019.2.4, >= 3000, < 3000.2 2019.2.4, 3000.2
  30. 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
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2019-17361 < 2019.2.1 2019.2.1
  31. 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 mys
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2019-1010259 < 2018.3.4 2018.3.4
  32. SaltStack Salt before 2017.7.8 and 2018.3.x before 2018.3.3 allow remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands via salt-api(netapi).
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2018-15751 >= 2018.3.0, < 2018.3.3, < 2017.7.8 2018.3.3, 2017.7.8
  33. In SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.6, compromised salt-minions can impersonate the salt-master.
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2017-7893 < 2016.3.6 2016.3.6
  34. SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted authentication request.
    High · 7.5 CVE-2017-14696 < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11, < 2016.11.8, >= 2017.7, < 2017.7.2 2016.3.8, 2016.11.8, 2017.7.2
  35. Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation in SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote minions with incorrect credentials t
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2017-14695 < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11, < 2016.11.8, >= 2017.7, < 2017.7.2 2016.3.8, 2016.11.8, 2017.7.2
  36. Salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2 allows arbitrary command execution on a salt-master via Salt's ssh_client.
    High · 8.8 CVE-2017-5200 < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3, < 2016.3.5, >= 2016.11, < 2016.11.2 2015.8.13, 2016.3.5, 2016.11.2
  37. When using the local_batch client from salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2, external authentication is not respected, enabling all aut
    High · 8.8 CVE-2017-5192 < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3, < 2016.3.5, >= 2016.11, < 2016.11.2 2015.8.13, 2016.3.5, 2016.11.2
  38. Salt before 2014.7.6 does not verify certificates when connecting via the aliyun, proxmox, and splunk modules.
    High · 7.5 CVE-2015-4017 < 2014.7.6 2014.7.6
  39. Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation in SaltStack Salt before 2016.11.7 and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.1 allows remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master v
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2017-12791 < 2016.11.7, >= 2017.7, < 2017.7.1 2016.11.7, 2017.7.1
  40. win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2015-6941 >= 2015.5, < 2015.5.6, >= 2015.8, < 2015.8.1 2015.5.6, 2015.8.1
  41. The salt-ssh minion code in SaltStack Salt 2016.11 before 2016.11.4 copied over configuration from the Salt Master without adjusting permissions, which might leak credentials to local attackers on con
    High · 7.8 CVE-2017-8109 >= 2016.11, < 2016.11.4 2016.11.4
  42. Salt before 2015.8.11 allows deleted minions to read or write to minions with the same id, related to caching.
    Critical · 9.1 CVE-2016-9639 < 2015.8.11 2015.8.11
  43. Salt 2015.8.x before 2015.8.4 does not properly handle clear messages on the minion, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by inserting packets into the minion-master data
    High · 8.1 CVE-2016-1866 >= 2015.8, < 2015.8.4 2015.8.4
  44. Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Salt (aka SaltStack) before 2014.1.10 allow local users to have an unspecified impact via vectors related to temporary file creation in (1) seed.py, (2) salt-ss
    High CVE-2014-3563 < 2014.1.10 2014.1.10
  45. The salt master in Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.11.0 through 0.17.0 does not properly drop group privileges, which makes it easier for remote attackers to gain privileges.
    High · 7.5 CVE-2013-6617 >= 0.11.0, < 0.17.1 0.17.1
  46. Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.15.0 through 0.17.0 allows remote authenticated users who are using external authentication or client ACL to execute restricted routines by embedding the routine in another rout
    High · 8.8 CVE-2013-4435 >= 0.15.0, < 0.17.1 0.17.1
  47. Unspecified vulnerability in salt-ssh in Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.17.0 has unspecified impact and vectors related to "insecure Usage of /tmp."
    High CVE-2013-4437 >= 0.17.0, < 0.17.1 0.17.1
  48. The default configuration for salt-ssh in Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.17.0 does not validate the SSH host key of requests, which allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a man-in-the-middle (
    High · 7.5 CVE-2013-4436 >= 0.17.0, < 0.17.1 0.17.1
  49. Minion identity not validated in saltstack
    High · 6.5 CVE-2013-4439 >= 0.15.0, < 0.17.1 0.17.1

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