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CVE-2020-17490
The TLS module within SaltStack Salt through 3002 creates certificates with weak file permissions.
Medium5.5EPSS 0.41%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The TLS module within SaltStack Salt through 3002 creates certificates with weak file permissions.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 64% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (7)
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/index.html#latest-branch-release (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-9e040bd6dd (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1868 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- GLSA-202011-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201204 [SECURITY] [DLA 2480-1] salt security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-4837 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-3c56-vx6v-q5vh (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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