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HistoryMay 17, 2022 - 4:58 a.m.

SaltStack MITM SSH attack in salt-ssh

2022-05-1704:58:29
CWE-20
GitHub Advisory Database
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7
saltstack
ssh
mitm
vulnerability

CVSS2

9.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

AI Score

7.2

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

61.6%

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.

Affected configurations

Vulners
Node
saltMatch0.17.0
VendorProductVersionCPE
*salt0.17.0cpe:2.3:a:*:salt:0.17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS2

9.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

AI Score

7.2

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

61.6%