Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting salt package, versions [,2019.2.4)[3000, 3000.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
97.48% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SALT-568031
  • published30 Apr 2020
  • disclosed30 Apr 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-11651  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade salt to version 2019.2.4, 3000.2 or higher.

Overview

salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. 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 Scores

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