CVE-2020-11651 vulnerability in SaltStack and Other Products
Published on April 30, 2020
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class does not properly validate method calls. This allows a remote user to access some methods without authentication.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by May 3, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2020-11651 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has the highest possible exploitability rating (3.9). The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.
Products Associated with CVE-2020-11651
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What versions are vulnerable to CVE-2020-11651?
- SaltStack Salt Version 3000 Fixed in Version 3000.2
- SaltStack Salt Fixed in Version 2019.2.4
- OpenSuse Leap Version 15.1
- Debian Linux Version 8.0
- Debian Linux Version 9.0
- Debian Linux Version 10.0
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux Version 18.04
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux Version 16.04
- VMware Application Remote Collector Version 8.0.0
- VMware Application Remote Collector Version 7.5.0