Friday, November 13, 2020

SaltStack Salt REST API Arbitrary Command Execution

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This Metasploit module exploits an authentication bypass and command injection in SaltStack Salt's REST API to execute commands as the root user. The following versions have received a patch: 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, 2019.2.6, 3000.3, 3000.4, 3001.1, 3001.2, and 3002. Tested against 2019.2.3 from Vulhub and 3002 on Ubuntu 20.04.1.
SaltStack Salt REST API Arbitrary Command Execution