saltstack/salt · Security
Salt Insecure configuration of PAM external authentication service
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-v2rp-9cpj-pfw2
- CVE ID
- CVE-2016-3176
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.6 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 5.6 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Description
Salt before 2015.5.10 and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.8, when PAM external authentication is enabled, allows attackers to bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command sent to LocalClient.
CWEs
- CWE-287 · Improper Authentication
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3176 ↗
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.5.10.html ↗
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.8.html ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-33.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v2rp-9cpj-pfw2 ↗