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Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting salt package, versions [2015.8,2015.8.4)

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.16% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-SALT-40379
  • published 1 Aug 2017
  • disclosed 4 Aug 2015
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 4 Aug 2015

CVE-2016-1866 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

salt is a Portable, distributed, remote execution and configuration management system.

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.

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CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

8.1 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High