GHSA-f22j-37jj-cxw9

SaltStack MITM SSH attack in salt-ssh

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2013-4436

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	salt	>= 0.17.0, < 0.17.1	0.17.1

Details

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

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.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4436 advisory
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2013-26.yaml web
https://github.com/saltstack/salt package
http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3 web