CVE-2020-25592
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
1.0
Description
In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens. A user can bypass authentication and invoke Salt SSH.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Metasploit modules
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | salt | >=3001.0,<3001.3 | 3001.3 |
| PyPI | salt | >=2018.2.0,<2018.3.5 | 2018.3.5 |
| PyPI | salt | >=3000.0,<3000.5 | 3000.5 |
| PyPI | salt | >=2016.11.0,<2016.11.10 | 2016.11.10 |
| PyPI | salt | >=3002.0,<3002.1 | 3002.1 |
| PyPI | salt | >=2016.3.0,<2016.3.8 | 2016.3.8 |
| PyPI | salt | <2015.8.13 | 2015.8.13 |
| PyPI | salt | >=2017.5.0,<2017.7.8 | 2017.7.8 |
| PyPI | salt | >=2019.2.0,<2019.2.7 | 2019.2.7 |
| PyPI | salt | >=3000,<3000.3 | 2015.8.10 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25592
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/index.html
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2020-106.yaml
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/2019.2.7.rst#L12
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3000.5.rst#L12
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3001.3.rst#L12
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3002.1.rst#L14
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837
- https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html
- https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25592.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.