CVE-2020-25592 (GCVE-0-2020-25592)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-06 07:31 – Updated: 2024-08-04 15:33
VLAI
Summary
In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens. A user can bypass authentication and invoke Salt SSH.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2319 records in the last 180 days details
References
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  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC

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