# CVE-2020-11651

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.

- Page: https://www.vulneraibility.com/cve/CVE-2020-11651
- CVSS: 9.8
- Known exploited: yes, in CISA KEV since 2021-11-03; CISA due date 2022-05-03
- EPSS: 96.61% (percentile 99.9)
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB · 2 Metasploit modules · 15 GitHub proofs of concept (first 2020-05-01)
- CISA SSVC: exploitation active, automatable yes, technical impact total (assessed 2025-02-07)
- Published: 2020-04-30

## Affected

- saltstack:salt
- opensuse:leap
- debian:debian_linux
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- vmware:application_remote_collector

## References

- [other] https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.4.html
- [other] https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3000.2_docs/doc/topics/releases/3000.2.rst
- [advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00047.html
- [other] http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157560/Saltstack-3000.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- [advisory] https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676
- [other] http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0009.html
- [other] http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157678/SaltStack-Salt-Master-Minion-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- [advisory] https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-salt-2vx545AG
- [other] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00027.html
- [advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00070.html
- [advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/
- [other] https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-11651

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