GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-vp49-2g4r-m3x3 SaltStack Salt is vulnerable Arbitrary Directory Access

HIGH Published 2022-05-24 Modified 2025-10-22 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2020-11652
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
salt
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:H
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-22
Reviewed
2024-04-22

Affected packages

• PyPI salt: < 2019.2.4 → fixed in 2019.2.4 • PyPI salt: >= 3000, < 3000.2 → fixed in 3000.2

Description

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class allows access to some methods that improperly sanitize paths. These methods allow arbitrary directory access to authenticated users.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2020-11652 An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References