CVE-2020-25592: In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens

Critical severity · published Nov 6, 2020

CVE-2020-25592

In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens

9.8

CVSS

56.8%

EPSS

On KEV

Description

In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens. A user can bypass authentication and invoke Salt SSH.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack vector

Network

Complexity

Low

Privileges

None

User interaction

None

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Scope

Unchanged

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)56.8% · higher than 99% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet

CISA KEVNot listed

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

Debian Linux · Debian

9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD

Salt · Saltstack

before 2015.8.10; 2015.8.11 before 2015.8.13; 2016.3.0 before 2016.3.4; 2016.3.5 before 2016.3.6; 2016.3.7 before 2016.3.8; 2016.11.0 before 2016.11.3; +8 more · source: NVD

Affected product

Debian Linux

Debian

All Debian Linux CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25592

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25592

Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html

Third Party Advisory

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html

Release Notes

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

Mailing List

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html

lists.fedoraproject.org

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/

Third Party Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13