CVE-2013-4436

Published: 5 November 2013

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.

Notes

Author	Note
seth-arnold	See notes on CVE-2013-4435.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
salt Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	lucid	Does not exist
	precise	Does not exist
	quantal	Ignored (end of life)
	raring	Ignored (end of life)
	saucy	Ignored (end of life)
	trusty	Not vulnerable (0.17.5+ds-1)
	upstream	Released (0.17.1)

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/15
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3
http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4436
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=726480

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