UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4436

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4436
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2013/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4436.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4436
Upstream
  • CVE-2013-4436
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:42:55Z
Published
2013-11-05T18:55:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T08:10:46.463344Z
Severity
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / salt

Package

Name
salt
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/salt@0.17.5+ds-1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.17.5+ds-1

Affected versions

0.*
0.16.0-1
0.16.4-2
0.17.1+dfsg-1
0.17.2-1
0.17.2-2
0.17.2-3
0.17.4-1
0.17.4-2
0.17.5-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1",
            "binary_name": "salt-common"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1",
            "binary_name": "salt-doc"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1",
            "binary_name": "salt-master"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1",
            "binary_name": "salt-minion"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1",
            "binary_name": "salt-ssh"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1",
            "binary_name": "salt-syndic"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2013/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4436.json"