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🛡️ CVE-2013-4435 — salt

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-287 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Salt has insufficient argument validation in several modules

Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.15.0 through 0.17.0 allows remote authenticated users who are using external authentication or client ACL to execute restricted routines by embedding the routine in another routine.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Attack requirements: Present — the target has to be in a particular state for the attack to work.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2013-4435 is classified as CWE-287: Improper Authentication. The identity of the caller is not established correctly, so an attacker can act as another user.

Affected software

CVE-2013-4435 is recorded against 1 package.

  • salt (from 0.15.0 up to 0.17.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 26 October 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
docs.saltstack.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

salt has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-287: Improper Authentication) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-287
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-10-26
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
salt 0.15.0 0.17.1

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