SaltStack Salt up to 0.17.0 access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in SaltStack Salt up to 0.17.0. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in access control. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2013-4439. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in SaltStack Salt up to 0.17.0. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was disclosed 11/05/2013 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at docs.saltstack.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2013-4439 since 06/12/2013. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The requirement for exploitation is a authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 70655 (Fedora 18 : salt-0.17.1-1.fc18 (2013-19354)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (70655), SecurityFocus (BID 62995†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-42234†). The entries VDB-65430, VDB-65426, VDB-65425 and VDB-65424 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 70655
Nessus Name: Fedora 18 : salt-0.17.1-1.fc18 (2013-19354)
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OpenVAS ID: 867019
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Update for salt FEDORA-2013-19354
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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Patch: github.com

Timelineinfo

06/12/2013 🔍
10/14/2013 +124 days 🔍
10/28/2013 +14 days 🔍
11/05/2013 +8 days 🔍
11/05/2013 +0 days 🔍
11/11/2013 +6 days 🔍
03/24/2015 +498 days 🔍
01/10/2022 +2484 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Product: github.com

Advisory: docs.saltstack.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2013-4439 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-4439
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-65427
SecurityFocus: 62995
Vulnerability Center: 42234 - Salt 0.15.0 - 0.17.0 Remote Security Bypass Vulnerability due to Failure to Validate Minions Posting Data, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 01/10/2022 09:25
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (62), 05/15/2017 11:12 (2), 01/10/2022 09:21 (3), 01/10/2022 09:25 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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