Saltstack vulnerabilities3 known to be exploited.

Vendor3 known exploited
The short answer

Saltstack has 55 published vulnerabilities across 5 products in our catalogue. 3 of them are on the list of flaws known to be exploited, so criminals are using them now. The most affected product is Salt, with 51. If you run Saltstack software, patch the exploited flaws first.

See the exploited flaws

The most recent Saltstack flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2020-11651, on 3 November 2021. We keep watching the known-exploited list.

Products

Which Saltstack products have the most vulnerabilities?

Salt leads with 51 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

  1. Salt51
  2. Salt 20152
  3. Salt 20181
  4. Salt 20191
  5. Saltstack1
Published vulnerabilities
Known exploited

Which Saltstack vulnerabilities are being exploited?

3 flaws are on the government list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited. These are the ones criminals are using now, so they go first, whatever their severity score says.

  1. 9.8
    CVE-2020-11651CriticalKnown exploited
    SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

    SaltStack Salt contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the salt-master process ClearFuncs due to improperly validating method calls.

    Chance of use97%Known exploited since3 Nov 2021
  2. 9.8
    CVE-2020-16846CriticalKnown exploited
    SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability

    SaltStack Salt allows an unauthenticated user with network access to the Salt API to use shell injections to run code on the Salt API using the SSH client.

    Chance of use>99%Known exploited since3 Nov 2021
  3. 6.5
    CVE-2020-11652MediumKnown exploited
    SaltStack Salt Path Traversal Vulnerability

    SaltStack Salt contains a path traversal vulnerability in the salt-master process ClearFuncs which allows directory access to authenticated users.

    Chance of use86%Known exploited since3 Nov 2021
Exploit likelihood

Which Saltstack flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. >99%
    CVE-2020-16846CriticalKnown exploited

    An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt through 3002.

    CVSS9.8Published6 Nov 2020
  2. 97%
    CVE-2020-11651CriticalKnown exploited

    An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2.

    CVSS9.8Published30 Apr 2020
  3. 92%

    An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5.

    CVSS9.1Published27 Feb 2021
  4. 86%
    CVE-2020-11652MediumKnown exploited

    An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2.

    CVSS6.5Published30 Apr 2020
  5. 73%

    An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5.

    CVSS9.8Published27 Feb 2021
  6. 72%

    An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5.

    CVSS9.8Published27 Feb 2021
  7. 57%

    In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens.

    CVSS9.8Published6 Nov 2020
  8. 15%

    In SaltStack Salt through 2019.2.0, the salt-api NET API with the ssh client enabled is vulnerable to command injection.

    CVSS9.8Published17 Jan 2020
  9. 10%

    An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5.

    CVSS9.8Published27 Feb 2021
  10. 8.2%

    An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5.

    CVSS9.8Published27 Feb 2021
Every product

All Saltstack products we track.

5 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

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Our catalogue lists 55 published vulnerabilities across 5 products and 209 versions from Saltstack. The most recent Saltstack flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2020-11651, on 3 November 2021.

3 Saltstack vulnerabilities are on the list of flaws known to be exploited. The most recently added are CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-16846 and CVE-2020-11652. The full list is on this page.

Salt, with 51 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

Create a EdgeProtect account and track the Saltstack products you run. We match them against every published flaw, give each one a risk score from 0 to 100 and tell you as soon as we spot one that affects you, by email, in the app or by webhook.