CVE-2020-11651
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 9.8 Critical
- Published
- Apr 30, 2020
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Reserved
- Apr 8, 2020
Description
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class does not properly validate method calls. This allows a remote user to access some methods without authentication. These methods can be used to retrieve user tokens from the salt master and/or run arbitrary commands on salt minions.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 9.8 Critical | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.4.html
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3000.2_docs/doc/topics/releases/3000.2.rst
- openSUSE-SU-2020:0564vendor-advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157560/Saltstack-3000.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- DSA-4676vendor-advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0009.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157678/SaltStack-Salt-Master-Minion-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- 20200528 SaltStack FrameWork Vulnerabilities Affecting Cisco Productsvendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200530 [SECURITY] [DLA 2223-1] salt security updatemailing-list
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1074vendor-advisory
- USN-4459-1vendor-advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-11651government-resource
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