CVE-2019-1010259: SaltStack Salt 2018

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• SaltStack Salt 2018: version 3.0 only
• SaltStack Salt 2019: version 2.0 only

Published 2019-07-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.