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PYSEC-2013-13

Quick fix

PYSEC-2013-13 — salt: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'salt>=0.17.1'

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI/salt

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.17.1

Fixpip 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]