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CVE-2020-11652

SaltStack Salt Path Traversal Vulnerability

KEVMEDIUM 6.5EPSS 86.2%

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 allows access to some methods that improperly sanitize paths. These methods allow arbitrary directory access to authenticated users.

CVSS 3.1
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
86.18% probability · 100th percentile
CISA KEV
Listed 3 November 2021 · due 3 May 2022
Weakness
CWE-22
Affected
saltstack/salt · opensuse/leap · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux · blackberry/workspaces server · vmware/application remote collector
Source
cve@mitre.org

CISA notes

Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11652

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.