PT-2013-5015 · Saltstack+1 · Salt+1

Kurt Seifried · Published 2013-11-05 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2013-4436

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Salt (aka SaltStack) version 0.17.0

Description The issue concerns the default configuration of salt-ssh in Salt, which does not validate the SSH host key of requests. This allows remote attackers to potentially conduct a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, although the specific impact is not detailed.

Recommendations For Salt (aka SaltStack) version 0.17.0, consider configuring salt-ssh to validate the SSH host key of requests to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2013-1179

CVE-2013-4436

GHSA-F22J-37JJ-CXW9

PYSEC-2013-26

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Salt

References · 11

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4436 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4436 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2013-26 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4436 · Vendor Advisory
• http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4436 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-f22j-37jj-cxw9 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/saltstack/salt · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2013-26.yaml · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/15 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3 · Note