CVE-2015-4017

Publication date 25 August 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Salt before 2014.7.6 does not verify certificates when connecting via the aliyun, proxmox, and splunk modules.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
salt 18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
15.04 vivid Ignored end of life
14.10 utopic
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Notes

sbeattie

vuln modules are only present in 2014.7.0 and later

Patch details

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Package Patch details
salt

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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