CVE-2013-4439

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Published 2013-11-05 · Modified 2023-11-08

CVSS v3

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

CVSS v2

4.9

VIR risk

4.9

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.

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	`>=0.15.0,<0.17.1`	`0.17.1`
PyPI	salt	`<0.17.1`	`0.17.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
saltstack	salt	`0.15.0`
saltstack	salt	`0.15.1`
saltstack	salt	`0.16.0`
saltstack	salt	`0.16.2`
saltstack	salt	`0.16.3`
saltstack	salt	`0.16.4`
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://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/7356
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4439
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jmv9-5gx8-7xpf
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2013-14.yaml
https://github.com/saltstack/salt

CWEs

CWE-264

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