Bug 1933342 (CVE-2020-35662)

Summary:	CVE-2020-35662 salt: Certain modules do not always validated SSL certificates
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	amctagga, anharris, bniver, brycel, david-dm.murphy, flucifre, frederic.pierret, gmeno, hvyas, kp, mbenjamin, mhackett, sostapov, vereddy
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in Salt where several places did not verify the SSL cert by default. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1933343
Bug Blocks:	1933352

Description Pedro Sampaio 2021-02-26 18:52:43 UTC

A flaw was found in Salt where several places was not verifying the SSL cert by default.

References:

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

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2021-02-26 18:53:17 UTC

Created salt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1933343]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-03-02 19:02:02 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-35662

Comment 4 RaTasha Tillery-Smith 2021-03-03 13:30:01 UTC

Statement:

Salt has been deprecated as of Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.5, as Salt was used to install RHSCON-2 and RHSCON-2 has reached End Of Life.