Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-15750
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2018-15750
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:39.926114604Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/",
"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://groups.google.com/d/msg/salt-users/L9xqcJ0UXxs/qgDj42obBQAJ",
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"published_at": "2018-10-24T22:29:00.54+00:00"
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