CVE-2020-11652

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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 allows access to some methods that improperly sanitize paths. These methods allow arbitrary directory access to authenticated users.

From the Tenable Blog

CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-11652: Critical Salt Framework Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild
CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-11652: Critical Salt Framework Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

Published: 2020-05-03

Shortly after the public disclosure of critical vulnerabilities in the Salt framework, exploitation attempts were observed, as two open source projects were breached using these flaws Update 05/04/20: The proof-of-concept section has been updated to reflect the availability of PoC scripts.

References

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2020-16846-cve-2020-25592-critical-vulnerabilities-in-salt-framework-disclosed

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2020-11651-cve-2020-11652-critical-salt-framework-vulnerabilities-exploited-in-the-wild

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4459-1/

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-salt-2vx545AG

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00027.html

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3000.2_docs/doc/topics/releases/3000.2.rst

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.4.html

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0009.html

http://support.blackberry.com/kb/articleDetail?articleNumber=000063758

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157678/SaltStack-Salt-Master-Minion-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157560/Saltstack-3000.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00070.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00047.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-04-30

Updated: 2022-05-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium