CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-25592

Improper Authentication

Published: Nov 06, 2020 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
9.8 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Salt Saltstack * 2015.8.10 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2015.8.11 (including) 2015.8.13 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2016.3.0 (including) 2016.3.4 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2016.3.5 (including) 2016.3.6 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2016.3.7 (including) 2016.3.8 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2016.11.0 (including) 2016.11.3 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2016.11.4 (including) 2016.11.6 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2016.11.7 (including) 2016.11.10 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2017.5.0 (including) 2017.7.4 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2017.7.5 (including) 2017.7.8 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2018.2.0 (including) 2018.3.5 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2019.2.0 (including) 2019.2.5 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 3000.0 (including) 3000.3 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 3001 (including) 3001 (including)
Salt Ubuntu bionic *
Salt Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Salt Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Salt Ubuntu groovy *
Salt Ubuntu hirsute *
Salt Ubuntu impish *
Salt Ubuntu kinetic *
Salt Ubuntu trusty *
Salt Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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