Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class allows access to some methods that improperly sanitize paths. These methods allow arbitrary directory access to authenticated users.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-11652
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class allows access to some methods that improperly sanitize paths. These methods allow arbitrary directory access to authenticated users.
osv:CVE-2020-11652
Complete source record
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