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

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1010259
• saltstack/salt#51462
• https://github.com/ShantonRU/salt/commit/a46c86a987c78e74e87969d8d3b27094e6544b7a
• https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/f22de0887cd7167887f113bf394244b74fb36b6b/salt/modules/mysql.py#L1534