CVE-2020-25592

high-risk
Published 2020-11-06

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

Do I need to act?

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44.9% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 55% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (4)

Affected Vendors

Debian Saltstack

References (16)

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-Co...
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
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837
Vendor Advisory https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-t...
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-Co...
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
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837
Vendor Advisory https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-t...
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high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 17/34 · Moderate
Exposure 10/34 · Low