GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-f22j-37jj-cxw9 SaltStack MITM SSH attack in salt-ssh

HIGH Published 2022-05-17 Modified 2024-10-26 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2013-4436
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
salt
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20
Reviewed
2024-05-01

Affected packages

• PyPI salt: >= 0.17.0, < 0.17.1 → fixed in 0.17.1

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2013-4436 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… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References