CVE-2013-4439

Salt (aka SaltStack) before 0.15.0 through 0.17.0 allows remote authenticated minions to impersonate arbitrary minions via a crafted minion with a valid key.

Published: 2013-11-05 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2013-4439 is rated Moderate Risk (45.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.47%). EPSS rose +1.28% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-4439

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.19% 1.47% +1.28%
2 2025-03-30 0.40% 0.19% -0.21%
3 2025-03-29 — 0.40% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-4439

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.9 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 6.8 4.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-4439

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2013-4439

GHSA-jmv9-5gx8-7xpf · Severity: high · Ecosystem: pip — Minion identity not validated in saltstack

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-4439

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2013-4439 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (salt), 7 status rows across 7 suites (lucid, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream): ignored 3, DNE 2, not-affected 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4439

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-4439

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
saltstack salt 0.15.0 cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt 0.15.1 cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt 0.16.0 cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.16.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt 0.16.2 cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.16.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt 0.16.3 cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.16.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt 0.16.4 cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.16.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt 0.17.0 cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-4439

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