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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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6

9.3 High

CVSS2

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

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

61.2%

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
saltstacksaltMatch0.17.0
CPENameOperatorVersion
salteq0.17.0

9.3 High

CVSS2

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

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

61.2%