In short
- CVE-2013-4436 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability affecting salt, salt (saltstack).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 78.8% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 0.17.1 or later.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| salt PyPI | ≥ 0.17.0, < 0.17.1
| 0.17.1
|
| salt | = 0.17.0
| No fix yet |
Description
The default configuration for salt-ssh in Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.17.0 does not validate the SSH host key of requests, which allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.
NVD description
The default configuration for salt-ssh in Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.17.0 does not validate the SSH host key of requests, which allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.
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