CVE-2022-22935 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. A minion authentication denial of service can cause a MiTM attacker to force a minion process to stop by impersonating a master.

Published: 2022-03-29

Score: 3.7 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

SaltStack Salt

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`SaltStack Salt prior to 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt::::::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Github GHSA	GHSA-cvcc-5x92-gmhc	SaltStack Salt Improper Authentication via Man in the Middle Attack

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0007.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases%2C
https://repo.saltproject.io/
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-release/%2C
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22

History

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Subscriptions

Saltstack Salt

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2022-03-29T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-05T16:28:44.531Z

Reserved: 2022-01-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-22935

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-03-29T17:15:15.220

Modified: 2025-05-05T17:17:54.170

Link: CVE-2022-22935

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-287

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