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CVE-2013-4436

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected products

• VMware SALT: 0.17.0

References

• http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3
• http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3

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