SaltStack Salt Improper SSL Certificate Validation

GHSA-qx72-q6w3-qgc7 · CVE-2020-35662 · PYSEC-2021-75

Published May 24, 2022 · Modified Oct 22, 2024

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Description

In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, when authenticating to services using certain modules, the SSL certificate is not always validated.

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35662
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#L18
WEB https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3001.5.rst#L18
WEB https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3000.7.rst#L18
PACKAGE https://github.com/saltstack/salt
WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2021-75.yaml

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HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected Packages

PyPI/salt

Fix 2015.8.13, 2016.11.10, 2016.11.5, 2017.7.8, 2019.2.8, 3000.7, 3001.5, 3002.3

Introduced 0, 2016.11.7, 2016.3.0, 2017.5.0, 2018.2.0, 2019.2.0, 3000, 3001, 3002

168 affected versions

0.10.00.10.10.10.20.10.30.10.40.10.50.11.00.11.10.12.00.12.10.13.00.13.10.13.20.13.30.14.00.14.10.15.00.15.10.15.20.15.3 +148 more

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Aliases

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