Improper Access Control The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package salt  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-SALT-622609
  • published12 Apr 2016
  • disclosed12 Apr 2016

Introduced: 12 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-1866  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt package and not the salt package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.