Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package salt  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-SALT-635427
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed5 Nov 2013

Introduced: 5 Nov 2013

CVE-2013-4436  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt package and not the salt package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The default configuration for salt-ssh in Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.17.0 does not validate the SSH host key of requests, which allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.