Improper Access Control Affecting salt package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.6% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-SALT-4406493
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed25 Nov 2016

Introduced: 25 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-9639  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 salt.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt package and not the salt package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Salt before 2015.8.11 allows deleted minions to read or write to minions with the same id, related to caching.