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PYSEC-2013-26

Details

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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Affected packages

PyPI / salt

Introduced in: 0.17.0 Fixed in: 0.17.1

Fix pip install --upgrade 'salt>=0.17.1'

References

http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html [WEB]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3 [WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f22j-37jj-cxw9 [ADVISORY]