🛡️ CVE-2016-1866 — salt

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-284 OSV
8.0
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Description

Salt Improper Access Control

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2016-1866 is classified as CWE-284: Improper Access Control. The software does not restrict an action to the actors that should be allowed to perform it.

Affected software

CVE-2016-1866 is recorded against 1 package.

  • salt (from 2015.8.0rc1 up to 2015.8.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 21 October 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
docs.saltstack.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
lists.opensuse.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-10-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
salt 2015.8.0rc1 2015.8.4

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