CVE-2015-4017
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
Salt before 2014.7.6 does not verify certificates when connecting via the aliyun, proxmox, and splunk modules.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | salt | <2014.7.6 | 2014.7.6 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| saltstack | salt | 2014.7.5 | |
References
- 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://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-31.yaml
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/salt-users/8Kv1bytGD6c
CWEs
CWE-295
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.