CVE-2020-25592
In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 56.8%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens. A user can bypass authentication and invoke Salt SSH.
- 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
- 56.82% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-287
- Affected
- saltstack/salt · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 56.8% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/index.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837Third Party Advisory
- https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/index.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837Third Party Advisory
- https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.