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CVE-2020-25592
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 56.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2020-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-287
Description
In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens. A user can bypass authentication and invoke Salt SSH.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
- VMware SALT: before 2015.8.10; from 2015.8.11 before 2015.8.13; from 2016.3.0 before 2016.3.4; from 2016.3.5 before 2016.3.6; from 2016.3.7 before 2016.3.8; from 2016.11.0 before 2016.11.3 — fixed in 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.11.10, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.6, 2016.3.4
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: VMware SALT 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.11.10, 2016.11.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/index.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837
- https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/index.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html
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