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SaltStack Salt is vulnerable Arbitrary Directory Access

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 22, 2024

Package

pip salt (pip)

Affected versions

< 2019.2.4
>= 3000, < 3000.2

Patched versions

2019.2.4
3000.2

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 30, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Apr 22, 2024
Last updated Apr 22, 2024

Severity

Moderate
6.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-11652

GHSA ID

GHSA-vp49-2g4r-m3x3

Source code

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