CVE-2020-11651: SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Critical · CVSS 9.8 (CVSS 3.1)KEV known exploitedEPSS 96.6%, 100th percentilePublished Updated Assigner: mitre
In CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Vulnerability.
Added , federal remediation due . Known ransomware use: Unknown.
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
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.
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Status incidents that name it
No tracked status incident names this CVE.
Affected vendors and products
SaltStack: Salt
References
- CVE record on cve.org (opens in new tab)
- NVD entry (opens in new tab)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00047.html (opens in new tab)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00070.html (opens in new tab)
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/157560/Saltstack-3000.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in new tab)
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/157678/SaltStack-Salt-Master-Minion-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code… (opens in new tab)
- docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.4.html (opens in new tab)
- github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3000.2_docs/doc/topics/releases/3000.2.rst (opens in new tab)
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00027.html (opens in new tab)
- tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-salt-2vx545AG (opens in new tab)
- usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/ (opens in new tab)
- www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676 (opens in new tab)
- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0009.html (opens in new tab)
- CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (opens in new tab)
- This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (opens in new tab)
- Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (opens in new tab)
- EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (opens in new tab)