CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-1866
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• saltstack salt 2015.8.0
• saltstack salt 2015.8.1
• saltstack salt 2015.8.2
• saltstack salt 2015.8.3
• opensuse leap 42.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00034.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.4.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00034.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.4.html Vendor Advisory