SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild. Listed by CISA on 2021-11-03; known to be used by ransomware.

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SaltStack Salt contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the salt-master process ClearFuncs due to improperly validating method calls. The vulnerability allows a remote user to access some methods without authentication, which can be used to retrieve user tokens from the salt master and/or run commands on salt minions. Salt users who follow fundamental internet security guidelines and best practices are not affected by this vulnerability.

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11651

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