{"answers":{"affected":"5 open source packages ship an affected version, including salt. It affects 5 products.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2020-11651 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021.","fix":"Upgrade salt to a fixed version for your release line: 2019.2.4 or 3000.2. US federal agencies must fix it by 3 May 2022.","what":"CVE-2020-11651 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 30 Apr 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-11651 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-11651 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 30 Apr 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2020-11651 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- salt (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2019.2.4, 3000.2\n- salt (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2019.2.4\n- salt (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2019.2.4\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 3000; fixed in 3000.2\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 3000; fixed in 3000.2\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11651/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11651/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-11651","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11651/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-11651","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-pjhf-vpx3-33r3","PYSEC-2020-102","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-11651"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution","data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"SaltStack configuration management","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can bypass authentication to retrieve tokens and execute arbitrary commands on Salt minions via the salt-master process.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"auth_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"ubuntu_linux","vendor":"canonical"},{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"leap","vendor":"opensuse"},{"product":"salt","vendor":"saltstack"},{"product":"application_remote_collector","vendor":"vmware"}],"cvss":{"score":9.8,"severity":"critical","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"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.","ecosystems":["PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2020-04-30","github_poc":15,"max_poc_stars":123,"metasploit":2,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2020-05-04T11:52:28Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/jasperla/CVE-2020-11651-poc","stars":123,"title":"PoC exploit of CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652"},{"date":"2020-05-01T20:53:49Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/rossengeorgiev/salt-security-backports","stars":109,"title":"Salt security backports for CVE-2020-11651 \u0026 CVE-2020-11652"},{"date":"2020-05-04T08:01:37Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/dozernz/cve-2020-11651","stars":106,"title":null},{"date":"2020-05-04T11:47:56Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/0xc0d/CVE-2020-11651","stars":40,"title":"CVE-2020-11651: Proof of Concept"},{"date":"2020-05-07T09:17:39Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/ssrsec/CVE-2020-11651-CVE-2020-11652-EXP","stars":24,"title":"CVE-2020-11651\u0026\u0026CVE-2020-11652 EXP"},{"date":"2020-05-01T03:23:01Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/chef-cft/salt-vulnerabilities","stars":6,"title":"Checks for CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652"},{"date":"2020-05-04T20:34:04Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/kevthehermit/CVE-2020-11651","stars":6,"title":"PoC for CVE-2020-11651"},{"date":"2020-05-04T15:07:11Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/bravery9/SaltStack-Exp","stars":5,"title":"CVE-2020-11651\u0026\u0026CVE-2020-11652 EXP"}],"tier":"exploited"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass","id":"CVE-2020-11651","indexable":true,"kev":{"dateAdded":"2021-11-03","dueDate":"2022-05-03","knownRansomwareCampaignUse":"Unknown","product":"Salt","requiredAction":"Apply updates per vendor instructions.","vendorProject":"SaltStack","vulnerabilityName":"SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Vulnerability"},"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":"canonical:ubuntu_linux","products":["canonical:ubuntu_linux","debian:debian_linux","opensuse:leap","saltstack:salt"],"type":"auth_bypass","year":"2020"},"n_packages":5,"n_references":11,"next":{"headline":"SaltStack Salt Path Traversal","id":"CVE-2020-11652"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2019.2.4","3000.2"],"introduced":["0","3000"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":"pkg:pypi/salt","source":"PYSEC-2020-102"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2019.2.4"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-pjhf-vpx3-33r3"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2019.2.4"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":"pkg:pypi/salt","source":"GHSA-pjhf-vpx3-33r3"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3000.2"],"introduced":["3000"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-pjhf-vpx3-33r3"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3000.2"],"introduced":["3000"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":"pkg:pypi/salt","source":"GHSA-pjhf-vpx3-33r3"}],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-11650"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2020-04-30","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2020-7247","kev_date_added":"2022-03-25","published":"2020-01-29"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Exim Out-of-bounds Write","id":"CVE-2019-16928","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2019-09-27"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Exim Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2018-6789","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2018-02-08"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2015-2590","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2015-07-16"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Oracle JRE Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2013-0422","kev_date_added":"2022-05-25","published":"2013-01-10"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) Arbitrary Code Execution","id":"CVE-2011-3544","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2011-10-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"PyPA Advisory Database","prefix":"PYSEC"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0 1.0","name":"CISA KEV"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"active","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-10-21","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can bypass authentication to retrieve tokens and execute arbitrary commands on Salt minions via the salt-master process.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11651/"}