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

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0.16% (53^rd 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

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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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1

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