Cisco Advisory

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 AuthenticationA process or measure used to verify a users identity. 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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