CVE-2020-11651
SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
What is affected
| Vendor | SaltStack |
|---|---|
| Product | Salt |
The vulnerability
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.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 3 May 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.
Where this comes from
Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 11 Nov 2026, 12:27. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.