CVE-2020-28972

MEDIUM

SaltStack Salt < 3002.5 - Improper Certificate Validation in VMware Authentication

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (8)

Core 8

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22

Vendor Advisory

https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9

EPSS 0.0309

EPSS Percentile 86.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-295

Status published

Products (8)

debian/debian_linux 9.0

debian/debian_linux 10.0

debian/debian_linux 11.0

fedoraproject/fedora 32

fedoraproject/fedora 33

fedoraproject/fedora 34

pypi/salt 0 - 2015.8.13PyPI

saltstack/salt < 2015.8.10

Published Feb 27, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026