CVE-2013-4436

critical

Published 2013-11-05 · Modified 2024-05-01

CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2

9.3

VIR risk

9.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	salt	`>=0.17.0,<0.17.1`	`0.17.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
saltstack	salt	`0.17.0`

References

http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4436
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2013-26.yaml
https://github.com/saltstack/salt

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.