SB2013110506 - Code Injection in SaltStack Salt
Published: November 5, 2013 Updated: August 10, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2013110506
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4438)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Salt (aka SaltStack) before 0.17.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary YAML code via unspecified vectors. NOTE: the vendor states that this might not be a vulnerability because the YAML to be loaded has already been determined to be safe.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.