{"action":"Upgrade salt to 0.17.1 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"0.17.1","introduced":"0.17.0"}],"component":"salt","cve_ids":["CVE-2013-4436"],"ecosystem":"PyPI","epss":0.01824,"exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["0.17.1"],"ghsa_id":"GHSA-f22j-37jj-cxw9","id":"tcs_01M5KG5T7RBC5TG0ZR7CS3E53Y","modified_at":"2026-06-10T17:02:35.821555732Z","published_at":"2013-11-05T18:55:00Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2013-26","http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.17.1.html","http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/18/3","https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f22j-37jj-cxw9"],"severity":{"label":"unknown"},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"PYSEC-2013-26","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2013-26"}],"summary":"The default configuration for salt-ssh in Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.17.0 does not validate the SSH host key of requests, which allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a man-in-the-middle ("}