CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-3176

5.6 MEDIUM Published 2017-01-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-01-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

Salt before 2015.5.10 and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.8, when PAM external authentication is enabled, allows attackers to bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command sent to LocalClient.

Affected configurations

• saltstack salt (<= 2015.5.9) • saltstack salt 2015.8.0 • saltstack salt 2015.8.1 • saltstack salt 2015.8.2 • saltstack salt 2015.8.3 • saltstack salt 2015.8.4 • saltstack salt 2015.8.5 • saltstack salt 2015.8.7

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References