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Critical 2 exploited CVEs USN-6849-1 2 CVEs

salt vulnerabilities

Published Jun 25, 2024 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly validated method calls and
sanitized paths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to access
some methods without authentication. (CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-11652)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS salt 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2020-11651 Exploited Public exploit EPSS 97%

    SaltStack Salt Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

    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 u…

    salt salt salt Ubuntu Alpine PyPI
    KEV Nov 3, 2021
  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2020-11652 Exploited Public exploit EPSS 86%

    SaltStack Salt is vulnerable Arbitrary Directory Access

    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.

    salt salt salt Ubuntu Alpine PyPI
    KEV Nov 3, 2021

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-11651
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-11652