CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-11651

9.8 CRITICAL Known exploited Published 2020-04-30 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Vulnerability — SaltStack Salt

SaltStack Salt contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the salt-master process ClearFuncs due to improperly validating method calls. The vulnerability allows a remote user to access some methods without authentication, which can be used to retrieve user tokens from the salt master and/or run commands on salt minions. Salt users who follow fundamental internet security guidelines and best practices are not affected by this vulnerability.

Added to KEV
2021-11-03
Remediation due
2022-05-03
Ransomware use
Unknown
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11651
Status
Analyzed
Published
2020-04-30
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• saltstack salt (< 2019.2.4) • saltstack salt (>= 3000 < 3000.2) • opensuse leap 15.1 • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0 • debian debian linux 10.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 18.04 • vmware application remote collector 7.5.0 • vmware application remote collector 8.0.0

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