CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-28972

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Feb 27, 2021 | Modified: Dec 21, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.4 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, authentication to VMware vcenter, vsphere, and esxi servers (in the vmware.py files) does not always validate the SSL/TLS certificate.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Salt Saltstack * 2015.8.10 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2015.8.11 (including) 2015.8.13 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2016.3.0 (including) 2016.3.4 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2016.3.5 (including) 2016.3.6 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2016.3.7 (including) 2016.3.8 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2016.3.9 (including) 2016.11.3 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2016.11.4 (including) 2016.11.5 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2016.11.7 (including) 2016.11.10 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2017.5.0 (including) 2017.7.8 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2018.2.0 (including) 2018.3.5 (including)
Salt Saltstack 2019.2.0 (including) 2019.2.5 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 2019.2.6 (including) 2019.2.8 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 3000 (including) 3000.6 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 3001 (including) 3001.4 (excluding)
Salt Saltstack 3002 (including) 3002.5 (excluding)
Salt Ubuntu bionic *
Salt Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Salt Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Salt Ubuntu groovy *
Salt Ubuntu hirsute *
Salt Ubuntu impish *
Salt Ubuntu kinetic *
Salt Ubuntu trusty *
Salt Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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