CVE-2013-4439 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Salt (aka SaltStack) before 0.15.0 through 0.17.0 allows remote authenticated minions to impersonate arbitrary minions via a crafted minion with a valid key.

Published: 2013-11-05

Score: 4.9 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.15.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.15.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.16.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.16.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.16.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.16.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.17.0:::::::*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2013-0036	Salt (aka SaltStack) before 0.15.0 through 0.17.0 allows remote authenticated minions to impersonate arbitrary minions via a crafted minion with a valid key.
Github GHSA	GHSA-jmv9-5gx8-7xpf	Minion identity not validated in saltstack

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00193.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/7356

History

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Subscriptions

Saltstack Salt

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2013-11-05T18:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T16:18:55.492Z

Reserved: 2013-06-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2013-4439

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-11-05T18:55:05.010

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2013-4439

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-264

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