Coverage › CVE-2020-11651
CVE-2020-11651 Unmapped
SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- SaltStack — Salt
- Description (CISA)
- 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.
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Due date
- 2022-05-03
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- none recorded by CISA
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11651
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2020-11651. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE — here is why — and does not guess.
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