saltstack/salt · Security
Salt Improper Access Control
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-vqh4-crjf-jjxx
- CVE ID
- CVE-2016-1866
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.1 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 8.1 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
Salt 2015.8.x before 2015.8.4 does not properly handle clear messages on the minion, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by inserting packets into the minion-master data stream.
CWEs
- CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1866 ↗
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.4.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00034.html ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2016-23.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vqh4-crjf-jjxx ↗