GHSA-jmv9-5gx8-7xpf

Minion identity not validated in saltstack

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2013-4439

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	salt	>= 0.15.0, < 0.17.1	0.17.1

Details

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

Salt (aka SaltStack) before 0.15.0 through 0.17.0 allows remote authenticated minions to impersonate arbitrary minions via a crafted minion with a valid key.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4439 advisory
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/7356 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jmv9-5gx8-7xpf advisory
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2013-14.yaml web
https://github.com/saltstack/salt package
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3 web