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Arch Linux: Certificate verification bypass (CVE-2020-35662)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Feb 27, 2021
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, when authenticating to services using certain modules, the SSL certificate is not always validated.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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