Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-11651  

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.

Severity Critical

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary command execution

Description

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.

AVG-1147 salt 2019.2.3-1 2019.2.4-1 Critical Fixed

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.4.html
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3000.2_docs/doc/topics/releases/3000.2.rst
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/a67d76b15615983d467ed81371b38b4a17e4f3b7