CVE-2015-4017 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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

Published: 2017-08-25

Score: 7.5 High

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 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:2014.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-0115	Salt before 2014.7.6 does not verify certificates when connecting via the aliyun, proxmox, and splunk modules.
Github GHSA	GHSA-8j9g-c9rp-jvg4	Salt vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00227.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/19/2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222960
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2014.7.6.html
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/salt-users/8Kv1bytGD6c
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4017
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-4017

History

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Subscriptions

Saltstack Salt

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-25T18:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:04:02.396Z

Reserved: 2015-05-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-4017

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-08-25T18:29:00.763

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2015-4017

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-05-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-4017 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-295

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