CVE-2020-11652
MEDIUM6.5⚠ KEVEPSS 93.7%SaltStack Salt is vulnerable Arbitrary Directory Access
Published: 5/24/2022Modified: 10/22/2025Added to CISA KEV: 11/3/2021
Description
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class allows access to some methods that improperly sanitize paths. These methods allow arbitrary directory access to authenticated users.
Affected packages (2)
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:H |
References (17)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11652
- PATCHhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00047.html
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00070.html
- WEBhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157560/Saltstack-3000.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- WEBhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157678/SaltStack-Salt-Master-Minion-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- WEBhttps://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.4.html
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2020-103.yaml
- WEBhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3000.2_docs/doc/topics/releases/3000.2.rst
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00027.html
- WEBhttps://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-salt-2vx545AG
- WEBhttp://support.blackberry.com/kb/articleDetail?articleNumber=000063758
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/
- WEBhttps://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-11652
- WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676
- WEBhttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0009.html