CVE-2020-11652
SaltStack Salt Path Traversal Vulnerability
- Published
- Apr 30, 2020
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- May 5, 2020
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.7%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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CISA Known Exploited
This CVE appears in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Summary
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.
Sources
10Scanning tool to test for SaltStack vulnerabilities CVE-2020-11651 & CVE-2020-11652.
- SaltStack-ExpExploit
CVE-2020-11651&&CVE-2020-11652 EXP
- CVE-2020-11651Exploit
A script that exploits SaltStack CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652 to add new users to a vulnerable Salt master by injecting entries into /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. POC
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