VulnerabilityAnalyzed
CVE-2020-11651
SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
KEVCRITICAL 9.8EPSS 96.6%
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 3 May 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 96.61% probability · 100th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Listed 3 November 2021 · due 3 May 2022
- Affected
- saltstack/salt · opensuse/leap · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux · vmware/application remote collector
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
CISA notes
Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11651
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00047.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00070.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157560/Saltstack-3000.1-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157678/SaltStack-Salt-Master-Minion-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0009.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.4.htmlVendor Advisory
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3000.2_docs/doc/topics/releases/3000.2.rstThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-salt-2vx545AGThird Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00047.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00070.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157560/Saltstack-3000.1-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157678/SaltStack-Salt-Master-Minion-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0009.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.4.htmlVendor Advisory
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3000.2_docs/doc/topics/releases/3000.2.rstThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-salt-2vx545AGThird Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-11651US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.