🛡️ CVE-2013-4439 — salt

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 none, integrity high, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/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: None — no deployment-specific condition has to hold.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Confidentiality impact: None.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: None.

Affected software

CVE-2013-4439 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 6 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
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:

• CVE-2025-22242 (published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-34049 (published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-22241 (published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-22239 (8.0 High, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-22238 (published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-22237 (published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-38825 (published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-22232 (8.0 High, published 7 Jul 2026)

Details

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