Critical 9.8Known exploited (CISA KEV)Published Apr 30, 2020

CVE-2020-11651An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2.

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 9:00 PM ET)

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CISA lists it as known exploited since Nov 3, 2021; federal agencies had to remediate by May 3, 2022. Treat that date as your deadline.

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Added to CISA KEV Nov 3, 2021; federal remediation due May 3, 2022Apply updates per vendor instructions.
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): 96.61% (percentile 100)
Assigned by: mitre
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Oct 21, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

saltstack salt saltstack:salt	before 2019.2.4; from 3000 before 3000.2	NVD
opensuse leap opensuse:leap	15.1	NVD
debian debian_linux debian:debian_linux	8.0; 9.0; 10.0	NVD
canonical ubuntu_linux canonical:ubuntu_linux	16.04; 18.04	NVD
vmware application_remote_collector vmware:application_remote_collector	7.5.0; 8.0.0	NVD

References

References

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.4.html	x-refsource-misc, vendor-advisory
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3000.2_docs/doc/topics/releases/3000.2.rst	x-refsource-misc, third-party-advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00047.html	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-suse, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157560/Saltstack-3000.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html	x-refsource-misc, exploit, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4676	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-debian, third-party-advisory
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0009.html	x-refsource-confirm, third-party-advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157678/SaltStack-Salt-Master-Minion-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html	x-refsource-misc, exploit, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-salt-2vx545AG	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-cisco, third-party-advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00027.html	mailing-list, x-refsource-mlist, third-party-advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00070.html	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-suse, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
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