CVE-2022-22935 SaltStack Salt Improper Authentication via Man in the Middle Attack

What is CVE-2022-22935?

CVE-2022-22935 is a low-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Saltstack Salt, published on 29 Mar 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-22935?

7 open source packages ship an affected version, including salt. It affects 1 product.

Products include Saltstack Salt.

How do I fix CVE-2022-22935?

Upgrade salt to a fixed version for your release line: 3002.8, 3003.4 or 3004.1.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2022-22935 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-22935 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Saltstack Salt

• CVE-2013-4437 SaltStack insecurely uses /tmp Critical 10.0
• CVE-2013-6617 SaltStack Privilege Escalation vulnerability Critical 10.0
• CVE-2021-33226 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-25315 salt-api unauthenticated remote code execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-15751 SaltStack Salt Remote command execution and incorrect access control when using salt-api Critical 9.8

All Saltstack Salt vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-cvcc-5x92-gmhc, PYSEC-2022-172, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-22935.