APP: SaltStack Salt ClearFuncs Authorization Weakness

This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability against SaltStack Salt. A successful attack can lead to arbitrary code execution.

Extended Description

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.

Affected Products

Debian debian_linux

References

CVE: CVE-2020-11651

Short Name
APP:MISC:SALTSTACK-CF-AUTH-WEAK
Severity
Major
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
Drop
Category
APP
Keywords
Authorization CVE-2020-11651 ClearFuncs Salt SaltStack Weakness
Release Date
05/26/2020
Supported Platforms

srx-branch-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.2

srx-19.4

vsrx3bsd-19.4

srx-branch-19.4

vsrx-19.4

vsrx-19.2

srx-19.3

srx-branch-12.3

mx-12.3

mx-19.4

vmx-19.4

mx-19.3

vsrx-12.3

vmx-19.3

srx-12.3

Sigpack Version
3647
Port
TCP/4506
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors

Opensuse

Saltstack

Debian

Vmware

Canonical

CVSS Score

7.5

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