PT-2016-4907 · Saltstack · Salt

Published 2016-04-12 · Updated 2022-05-14 · CVE-2016-1866

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Salt versions 2015.8.x before 2015.8.4

Description The issue allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by inserting packets into the minion-master data stream due to improper handling of clear messages on the minion.

Recommendations For Salt versions 2015.8.x before 2015.8.4, update to version 2015.8.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Access Control

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-1866

GHSA-VQH4-CRJF-JJXX

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10291-1

PYSEC-2016-23

Affected Products

Salt

References · 12

• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.4.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1866 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00034.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1866 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1866 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1866 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2016-23 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1866 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-vqh4-crjf-jjxx · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/saltstack/salt · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2016-23.yaml · Note
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.5.html · Note