Bug 1933347 (CVE-2020-28972) - CVE-2020-28972 salt: Authentication to vCenter, vSphere, and ESXi servers does not always validate the SSL/TLS certificate
Summary: CVE-2020-28972 salt: Authentication to vCenter, vSphere, and ESXi servers doe...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2020-28972
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1933348
Blocks: 1933352
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Reported: 2021-02-26 19:01 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-03-09 21:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-03-09 21:06:11 UTC
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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
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