MEDIUM 5.9 PyPI
SaltStack Salt Improper Certificate Validation
GHSA-w589-r335-4f55 · CVE-2020-28972 · PYSEC-2021-74
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Description
In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, authentication to VMware vcenter, vsphere, and esxi servers (in the vmware.py files) does not always validate the SSL/TLS certificate.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28972
- WEB https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011
- WEB https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22
- WEB https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01
- WEB https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25
- WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5
- WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH
- WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB
- WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5
- WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH
- WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB
- WEB https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html
- WEB https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3002.3.rst#L14
- WEB https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3001.5.rst#L14
- WEB https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3000.7.rst#L14
- WEB https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/CHANGELOG.md?plain=1#L2358
- PACKAGE https://github.com/saltstack/salt
- WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2021-74.yaml
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