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CVE-2020-11651

CRITICAL
9.8CVSS
Published: 2020-04-30
Updated: 2025-11-07
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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 Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
high
Integrity
high
Availability
high
Weaknesses
NVD-CWE-Other

Metadata

Primary Vendor
SALTSTACK
Published
4/30/2020
Last Modified
11/7/2025
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

saltstack : saltsaltstack : saltopensuse : leapdebian : debian_linuxdebian : debian_linuxdebian : debian_linuxcanonical : ubuntu_linuxcanonical : ubuntu_linuxvmware : application_remote_collectorvmware : application_remote_collector

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