Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Affecting salt package, versions [3002rc1,3002.5) [3001rc1,3001.6) [,3000.8)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.96% (84th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-SALT-1080595
- published 27 Feb 2021
- disclosed 27 Feb 2021
- credit Long Nguyen Van
Introduced: 27 Feb 2021
CVE-2020-28972 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade salt to version 3002.5, 3001.6, 3000.8 or higher.
Overview
salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM). The SaltStack Code base not validating SSL/TLS certificate of the server, which might allow attackers to obtain sensitive information via a man-in-the-middle attack
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version 3.1