SaltStack MITM SSH attack in salt-ssh
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 17, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated May 1, 2024
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Nov 5, 2013
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 17, 2022
Reviewed
May 1, 2024
Last updated
May 1, 2024
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.
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