Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Affecting salt package, versions [3002rc1,3002.5)[3001rc1,3001.6)[,3000.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.96% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SALT-1080595
  • published27 Feb 2021
  • disclosed27 Feb 2021
  • creditLong Nguyen Van

Introduced: 27 Feb 2021

CVE-2020-28972  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-300  (opens in a new tab)

How 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

CVSS Scores

version 3.1