Improper Certificate Validation Affecting salt package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.06% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-SALT-9886465
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed2 May 2015

Introduced: 2 May 2015

CVE-2015-4017  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 salt.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt package and not the salt package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Salt before 2014.7.6 does not verify certificates when connecting via the aliyun, proxmox, and splunk modules.