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Vulnerability details: VCID-mbpz-g2vs-tqc1
Vulnerability ID VCID-mbpz-g2vs-tqc1
Aliases CVE-2020-28972
PYSEC-2021-74
Summary In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, authentication to VMware vcenter, vsphere, and esxi servers (in the vmware.py files) does not always validate the SSL/TLS certificate.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
Reference id Reference type URL
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:08:45.555025+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2021-74.yaml 38.6.0