Number: AV20-168
Date: 1 June 2020
On 28 May 2020 Cisco released a security update to address vulnerabilities in SaltStack, a third-party component of:
- Cisco Modeling Labs Corporate Edition (CML)
- Cisco Virtual Internet Routing Lab Personal Edition (VIRL-PE)
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an actor to bypass authentication or traverse directories.
The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the following web link and apply the necessary updates:
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-salt-2vx545AG
For more information on the SaltStack vulnerabilities, please refer to the Cyber Centre’s Alert of 5 May 2020:
https://cyber.gc.ca/en/alerts/saltstack-vulnerabilities-actively-exploited
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