| Name | CVE-2020-11651 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2223-1, DSA-4676-1, DSA-4676-2 |
| Debian Bugs | 959684 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| salt (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2014.1.13+ds-3+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10 | fixed | |
| buster, buster (security) | 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3002.6+dfsg1-4+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| sid | 3004.1+dfsg-2.2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| salt | source | jessie | 2014.1.13+ds-3+deb8u1 | DLA-2223-1 | ||
| salt | source | stretch | 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u4 | DSA-4676-2 | ||
| salt | source | buster | 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u1 | DSA-4676-1 | ||
| salt | source | (unstable) | 3000.2+dfsg1-1 | 959684 |
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3000.2_docs/doc/topics/releases/3000.2.rst
Fixed by: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/a67d76b15615983d467ed81371b38b4a17e4f3b7 (v3000.2)
Regression: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3000.2_docs/doc/topics/releases/3000.2.rst#known-issue
Regression fix: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/cea28c850f7562fd3b869a1bbcc95050ab19e0f1 (v3000.3)
See also https://gitlab.com/saltstack/open/salt-patches/-/tree/master/patches/2020/04/14/