Selection of Less-Secure Algorithm During Negotiation ('Algorithm Downgrade') Affecting salt package, versions [3006.12,3006.17)[3007.4,3007.9)
Threat Intelligence
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- published2 Feb 2026
- disclosed30 Jan 2026
- creditBarney Sowood
Introduced: 30 Jan 2026
CVE-2025-62349 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade salt to version 3006.17, 3007.9 or higher.
Overview
salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Selection of Less-Secure Algorithm During Negotiation ('Algorithm Downgrade') via an authentication protocol downgrade in handle_message. An attacker can circumvent the fixes for CVE-2024-38822 and impersonate minions by forcing the use of an older protocol version during authentication.