CVE-2020-11651
KEVCRITICAL 9.8EPSS 96.6%
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.
- CVSS v4.0
- 9.3 CRITICAL
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - CVSS v3.1
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.1
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.1
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0
- 7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 96.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile
- CISA KEV
- added 2021-11-03
- Published
- 2020-04-30
- Updated
- 2025-10-21
Proof-of-concept exploits (17)
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157560/Saltstack-3000.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157678/SaltStack-Salt-Master-Minion-Unauthenticated-…
- 0xc0d/CVE-2020-1165140★ · 2021-07-07
- Drew-Alleman/CVE-2020-116511★ · 2025-03-30
- RakhithJK/CVE-2020-116510★ · 2020-05-04
- dozernz/cve-2020-11651106★ · 2020-05-04
- hardsoftsecurity/CVE-2020-11651-PoC0★ · 2023-12-18
- heikanet/CVE-2020-11651-CVE-2020-11652-EXP24★ · 2023-03-21
- jasperla/CVE-2020-11651-poc122★ · 2020-07-10
- kevthehermit/CVE-2020-116516★ · 2020-05-04
- limon768/CVE-2020-11652-CVE-2020-11652-POC4★ · 2024-01-17
- limon768/CVE-2020-11652-POC4★ · 2024-01-17
- lovelyjuice/cve-2020-11651-exp-plus5★ · 2020-05-09
- merlinxcy/ToolBox41★ · 2021-11-30
- ssrsec/CVE-2020-11651-CVE-2020-11652-EXP24★ · 2023-03-21
- zhangchi991022/Comprehensive-experiment-of-infomation-security7★ · 2021-01-21
- s1lentf00thold/CVE-2020-11651-Poc