CRITICALCVSS v3.1 9.8Actively exploited · CISA KEV since 2021-11-03Vulnerability
CVE-2020-11651
SaltStack Salt contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the salt-master process ClearFuncs due to improperly validating method calls. The vulnerability allows a remote user to access some methods without authentication, which can be used to retrieve user tokens from the salt master and/or run commands on salt minions. Salt users who follow fundamental internet security guidelines and best practices are not affected by this vulnerability.
Properties
- Vulnerability name
- SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
- First seen
- 2025-10-21T23:35:44+00:00
- Cvss score
- 9.8
- Epss score
- 0.96614
- Last seen
- 2026-10-19T12:00:27+00:00
- Due date
- 2022-05-03
- Euvd assigner
- mitre
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-21T01:24:47+00:00
- Exploited euvd since
- 2021-11-03T00:00:00+00:00
- Src batch id
- epss_history-20261020T103617Z-728ddd
- Source url
- https://epss.empiricalsecurity.com/epss_scores-2026-10-19.csv.gz
- Date added
- 2021-11-03
- Score
- 9.8
- Euvd base score version
- 3.1
- Fetched at
- 2026-10-20T10:36:20+00:00
- Cvss vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- In Signal since
- initial import (Sep 2026)
- Euvd base score
- 9.8
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Vendor project
- SaltStack
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