RULE(RULE ID:713921)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2020-05-13
Rule Name: SaltStack Salt ClearFuncs Input Validation Error Vulnerability (CVE-2020-11651)
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Rule Protection Details
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.
Impact: An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to have unspecified effect.
Affected OS: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Other Unix, Mac OS
Reference: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00047.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157560/Saltstack-3000.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157678/SaltStack-Salt-Master-Minion-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0009.html
Solutions
The vendors have released upgrade patches to fix vulnerabilities, please visit:
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.4.html