GHSA-h8xp-h3jf-wv4v

SaltStack Salt SQL Injection vulnerability in mysql.user_chpass function

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2019-1010259

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	salt	>= 2018.3.0, < 2018.3.4	2018.3.4

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

SaltStack Salt 2018.3 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 (https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/develop/salt/modules/mysql.py#L1462). The attack vector is: specially crafted password string. The fixed version is: 2018.3.4.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1010259 advisory
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/51462 web
https://github.com/ShantonRU/salt/commit/a46c86a987c78e74e87969d8d3b27094e6544b7a web
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2019-119.yaml web
https://github.com/saltstack/salt package
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/f22de0887cd7167887f113bf394244b74fb36b6b/salt/modules/mysql.py#L1534 web