Bug 1933347 (CVE-2020-28972)

Summary:	CVE-2020-28972 salt: Authentication to vCenter, vSphere, and ESXi servers does not always validate the SSL/TLS certificate
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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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 the codebase was not validating the SSL/TLS certificate of the server. This flaw allows an attacker to obtain sensitive information via a man-in-the-middle attack. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1933348
Bug Blocks:	1933352

Description Pedro Sampaio 2021-02-26 19:01:20 UTC

Code base not validating SSL/TLS certificate of the server, which might allow attackers to obtain sensitive information via a man-in-the-middle attack.

References:

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

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2021-02-26 19:01:48 UTC

Created salt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1933348]

Comment 2 RaTasha Tillery-Smith 2021-03-03 13:35:22 UTC

External References:

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

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-03-09 21:06:11 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-2020-28972