{"answers":{"affected":"19 open source packages ship an affected version, including salt. It affects 2 products.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2020-25592 exists.","fix":"Upgrade salt to a fixed version for your release line: 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4 or 2016.3.6.","what":"CVE-2020-25592 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 6 Nov 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-2020-25592 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-25592 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 6 Nov 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2020-25592 exists.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- salt (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.6, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.4, 2017.7.8, 2018.3.5, 2019.2.5, 3000.3\n- salt (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2015.8.13\n- salt (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2015.8.13\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2016.11.0; fixed in 2016.11.10\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2016.11.0; fixed in 2016.11.10\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2016.3.0; fixed in 2016.3.8\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2016.3.0; fixed in 2016.3.8\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2017.5.0; fixed in 2017.7.8\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2017.5.0; fixed in 2017.7.8\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2018.2.0; fixed in 2018.3.5\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2018.2.0; fixed in 2018.3.5\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2019.2.0; fixed in 2019.2.7\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-2020-25592/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-25592/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-25592","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-25592/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-25592","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-29j3-2446-5j4w","PYSEC-2020-106","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-25592"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"SaltStack Salt","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can bypass authentication in SaltStack Salt's netapi to invoke Salt SSH, potentially leading to unauthorized remote code execution.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"auth_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"salt","vendor":"saltstack"}],"cvss":{"score":9.8,"severity":"critical","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-287","name":"Improper Authentication"}],"description":"In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens. A user can bypass authentication and invoke Salt SSH.","ecosystems":["PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":"2020-11-03","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":1,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2020-11-03","kind":"metasploit","ref":"exploit/linux/http/saltstack_salt_api_cmd_exec","stars":null,"title":"SaltStack Salt REST API Arbitrary Command Execution"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"SaltStack Salt Improper Validation of eauth credentials and tokens in salt-netapi","id":"CVE-2020-25592","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux","saltstack:salt"],"type":"auth_bypass","year":"2020"},"n_packages":19,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in 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NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER.","id":"CVE-2020-25591"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2020-11-06","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"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":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"BSD-3-Clause","name":"Metasploit"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-04","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Attackers can bypass authentication in SaltStack Salt's netapi to invoke Salt SSH, potentially leading to unauthorized remote code execution.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-25592/"}