VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-4438

high
Published 2013-11-05 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Salt (aka SaltStack) before 0.17.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary YAML code via unspecified vectors. NOTE: the vendor states that this might not be a vulnerability because the YAML to be loaded has already been determined to be safe.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

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
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIsalt<0.17.10.17.1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
saltstacksalt0.10.2
saltstacksalt{"endIncluding":"0.17.0"}
saltstacksalt0.6.0
saltstacksalt0.7.0
saltstacksalt0.8.0
saltstacksalt0.8.7
saltstacksalt0.8.8
saltstacksalt0.8.9
saltstacksalt0.9.0
saltstacksalt0.9.2
saltstacksalt0.9.3
saltstacksalt0.9.4
saltstacksalt0.9.5
saltstacksalt0.9.6
saltstacksalt0.9.7
saltstacksalt0.9.8
saltstacksalt0.9.9
saltstacksalt0.10.0
saltstacksalt0.10.3
saltstacksalt0.10.4
saltstacksalt0.10.5
saltstacksalt0.11.0
saltstacksalt0.12.0
saltstacksalt0.13.0
saltstacksalt0.14.0
saltstacksalt0.15.0
saltstacksalt0.15.1
saltstacksalt0.16.0
saltstacksalt0.16.2
saltstacksalt0.16.3
saltstacksalt0.16.4

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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