Improper Access Control The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package salt.src (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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- published14 Jan 2026
- disclosed25 Nov 2016
Introduced: 25 Nov 2016
CVE-2016-9639 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt.src package and not the salt.src package as distributed by RHEL.
Salt before 2015.8.11 allows deleted minions to read or write to minions with the same id, related to caching.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1399220
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9639
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/25/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/25/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94553
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2015.8/ref/configuration/master.html#rotate-aes-key