CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4436
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-11-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
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.
Affected configurations
• saltstack salt 0.17.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3 www.openwall.com
- http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3 www.openwall.com