GHSA-cvcc-5x92-gmhc

SaltStack Salt Improper Authentication via Man in the Middle Attack

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Low CVE-2022-22935

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	salt	< 3002.8	3002.8
PyPI	salt	>= 3003, < 3003.4	3003.4
PyPI	salt	>= 3004, < 3004.1	3004.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. A minion authentication denial of service can cause a MiTM attacker to force a minion process to stop by impersonating a master.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22935 advisory
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2022-172.yaml web
https://github.com/saltstack/salt package
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3002.8.rst#L31 web
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3003.4.rst#L31 web
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3004.1.rst#L29 web
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-release web
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22 web