CVE-2013-4436: SaltStack MITM SSH attack in salt-ssh

May 17, 2022 (updated October 26, 2024)

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

github.com/advisories/GHSA-f22j-37jj-cxw9
github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2013-26.yaml
github.com/saltstack/salt
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4436

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