Code Injection in Salt - CVE-2013-4438
Published: November 5, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42399
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4438
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
Salt
Fedora
salt
Fedora
salt
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4438
Install update from vendor's website.
salt - addressed in versions 0.17.1-1.el5, 0.17.1-1.el6