CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-28972

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2021-02-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-02-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-295

Description

In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, authentication to VMware vcenter, vsphere, and esxi servers (in the vmware.py files) does not always validate the SSL/TLS certificate.

Affected configurations

• saltstack salt (< 2015.8.10) • saltstack salt (>= 2015.8.11 < 2015.8.13) • saltstack salt (>= 2016.3.0 < 2016.3.4) • saltstack salt (>= 2016.3.5 < 2016.3.6) • saltstack salt (>= 2016.3.7 < 2016.3.8) • saltstack salt (>= 2016.3.9 < 2016.11.3) • saltstack salt (>= 2016.11.4 < 2016.11.5) • saltstack salt (>= 2016.11.7 < 2016.11.10) • saltstack salt (>= 2017.5.0 < 2017.7.8) • saltstack salt (>= 2018.2.0 <= 2018.3.5) • saltstack salt (>= 2019.2.0 < 2019.2.5) • saltstack salt (>= 2019.2.6 < 2019.2.8) • saltstack salt (>= 3000 < 3000.6) • saltstack salt (>= 3001 < 3001.4) • saltstack salt (>= 3002 < 3002.5) • fedoraproject fedora 32 • fedoraproject fedora 33 • fedoraproject fedora 34 • debian debian linux 9.0 • debian debian linux 10.0 • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness

References