Security Advisory - Two Vulnerabilities in SaltStack Salt

2020-07-1500:00:00

Huawei Technologies

www.huawei.com

9.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.975 High

EPSS

Percentile

100.0%

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An authentication bypass vulnerability was discovered in SaltStack Salt. An attacker may exploit the vulnerability to retrieve user tokens from the salt master and/or run arbitrary commands on salt minions. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-05592)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-11651.

A directory traversal vulnerability was discovered in SaltStack Salt. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class allows access to some methods that improperly sanitize paths. An authenticated attacker may exploit this vulnerability to access any directories. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-05594)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-11652.

Huawei has released software updates to fix these vulnerabilities. This advisory is available at the following link:

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20200715-01-salt-en