CVE-2020-11652

Se descubrió un problema en SaltStack Salt versiones anteriores a la versión 2019.2.4 y versiones 3000 anteriores a 3000.2. La clase ClearFuncs del proceso Salt-master permite acceder a algunos métodos que sanean inapropiadamente las rutas. Estos métodos permiten acceso a directorios arbitrarios a usuarios autenticados.

It was discovered that Salt allows remote attackers to determine which files exist on the server. An attacker could use that to extract sensitive information. It was discovered that Salt has a vulnerability that allows an user to bypass authentication. An attacker could use that to extract sensitive information, execute arbitrary code or crash the server. It was discovered that Salt is vulnerable to command injection. This allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the API endpoint to execute arbitrary code on the salt-api host. Various other issues were also addressed.

SaltStack Salt contains a path traversal vulnerability in the salt-master process ClearFuncs which allows directory access to authenticated users. Salt users who follow fundamental internet security guidelines and best practices are not affected by this vulnerability.