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Vulnerability details: VCID-2db5-ek61-2bdx
Vulnerability ID VCID-2db5-ek61-2bdx
Aliases CVE-2018-15750
GHSA-jx34-pppm-gjvr
PYSEC-2018-29
Summary Directory Traversal vulnerability in salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2017.7.8 and 2018.3.x before 2018.3.3 allows remote attackers to determine which files exist on the server.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
epss 0.00912 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-15750
cvssv3.1_qr MODERATE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jx34-pppm-gjvr
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00070.html
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-15750
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2017.7/topics/releases/2017.7.8.html
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2018.3.3.html
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2018-29.yaml
https://github.com/saltstack/salt
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/2016.11.10.rst#L15
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/2017.7.8.rst#L28
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/2018.3.3.rst#L58
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/salt-users/dimVF7rpphY/jn3Xv3MbBQAJ
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/salt-users/L9xqcJ0UXxs/qgDj42obBQAJ
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00024.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/
CVE-2018-15750 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15750
GHSA-jx34-pppm-gjvr https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jx34-pppm-gjvr
No exploits are available.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.76196
EPSS Score 0.00912
Published At May 30, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-30T20:18:00.438867+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2018-29.yaml 38.6.0