CVE-2019-17361: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 15.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 to execute arbitrary code on the salt-api host.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only
• SaltStack Salt: up to and including 2019.2.0

Published 2020-01-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.