{
    "id": "CVE-2020-25592",
    "published": "2020-11-06 08:15:13",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-17 03:06:56",
    "cvss_score": "9.8",
    "cvss_severity": "CRITICAL",
    "cvss_version": "3.1",
    "cvss_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "cwe": "CWE-287",
    "description": "In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens. A user can bypass authentication and invoke Salt SSH.",
    "epss_score": "0.57726",
    "epss_percentile": "0.99061",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 0,
    "updated_at": "2026-10-02 18:17:27",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "EPSS 57.7% — above the 10% action threshold."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "debian",
            "product": "debian_linux"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "saltstack",
            "product": "salt"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html",
        "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html",
        "https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/index.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837",
        "https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html",
        "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html",
        "https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/index.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837",
        "https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/"
    ]
}