Authentication Bypass Affecting salt package, versions [,2015.5.10) [2015.8.0,2015.8.8)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.1% (41st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-SALT-42123
- published 3 Jun 2018
- disclosed 31 Jan 2017
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 31 Jan 2017
CVE-2016-3176 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade salt to versions 2015.5.10, 2015.8.8 or higher.
Overview
salt is a Portable, distributed, remote execution and configuration management system.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass. When PAM external authentication is enabled, An attacker could bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command sent to LocalClient.
CVSS Scores
version 3.1