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CVE-2020-11652

SaltStack Salt Path Traversal Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild

This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2021-11-03. Federal due date: 2022-05-03.

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Public exploit code

Working exploit or proof of concept code has been published for this vulnerability. Treat unpatched systems as at risk.

Impact

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class allows access to some methods that improperly sanitize paths. These methods allow arbitrary directory access to authenticated users.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
SaltstackSalt
before 2019.2.4
from 3000 before 3000.2
OpensuseLeap
Version 15.1
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 16.04, 18.04
BlackberryWorkspaces Server
through 7.1.3
from 8.0.0 through 8.2.6
Version 9.1.0
VmwareApplication Remote Collector
Versions 7.5.0, 8.0.0

Weakness classification

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