CVE-2013-4439

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

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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 v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

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

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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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

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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