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CVE-2013-4439

Salt (aka SaltStack) before 0.15.0 through 0.17.0 allows remote authenticated minions to impersonate arbitrary minions v

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.9 EPSS 0.00193
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  • No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence
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Affected Products & Versions

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saltstack saltall versions
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Affected Packages

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Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
PyPI salt HIGH fixed in 0.17.1
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Scoring & Timeline

4.9
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
Published to NVD05 Nov 2013 · 06:55 PM
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.htmlPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/7356
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