CVE-2020-17490

lowpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.004 · 36 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.42% (36th) EPSS

CVSS 2.1 · low

Is it mine?

66 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The TLS module within SaltStack Salt through 3002 creates certificates with weak file permissions.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.1–5.5

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9

v3.15.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.6

v3.15.5mediumAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.15.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.15.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-732USprimaryCWE-732USCWE-732US

affected products (66)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Gentoo Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:gentoo:linux:-
Open Source Arch Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:archlinux:archlinux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
SaltStack Salt <2019.2.6all versionscert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt <2019.2.7all versionscert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt <3000.4all versionscert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt <3000.5all versionscert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt <3001.2all versionscert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt <3001.3all versionscert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt <3002.1all versionscert_bundDE
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
SaltStack Salt< 2019.2.6cert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt< 2019.2.7cert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt< 3000.4cert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt< 3000.5cert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt< 3001.2cert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt< 3001.3cert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt< 3002.1cert_bundDE
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU

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advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-1801SaltStack Salt: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2020-11-03csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in SaltStack Salt ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, Informationen offenzulegen und die Authentisierung zu umgehen.
GHSA-3c56-vx6v-q5vhSaltStack Salt Allows creating certificates with weak file permissions2022-05-24ghsa · osvUS
The TLS module within SaltStack Salt through 3002 creates certificates with weak file permissions.
PYSEC-2020-1052020-11-06vendor · osvUS
The TLS module within SaltStack Salt through 3002 creates certificates with weak file permissions.

also known as (7)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu osv cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-11-06modified 2026-06-17

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references (30)

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