Inadequate Encryption Strength Affecting salt package, versions [,0.15.1)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
3.95% (93rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-SALT-6815330
- published 9 May 2024
- disclosed 5 May 2022
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 5 May 2022
CVE-2013-2228 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade salt to version 0.15.1 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 Inadequate Encryption Strength due to the RSA key generation process always using the exponent value 1. An attacker can bypass or corrupt the integrity of services, depending on the private RSA key generation mechanism.
CVSS Scores
version 3.1