Improper Certificate Validation Affecting salt package, versions [3002rc1,3002.5) [3001rc1,3001.6) [,3000.8)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.63% (80th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-SALT-1080597
- published 27 Feb 2021
- disclosed 27 Feb 2021
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 27 Feb 2021
CVE-2020-35662 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 Improper Certificate Validation. Several places where Salt was not verifying the SSL cert by default. This has now been remediated.
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CVSS Scores
version 3.1