CVE-2013-4436

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

05/11/2013

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

9.30

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.17.0:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3
http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3