🛡️ CVE-2017-14696 — salt

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-20 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

SaltStack Salt Denial of Service via a crafted authentication request

SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted authentication request.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, 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 none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2017-14696 is classified as CWE-20: Improper Input Validation. The application accepts input without checking that it has the expected form, so malformed values reach code that assumes they are well formed.

Affected software

CVE-2017-14696 is recorded against 1 package.

  • salt (from 2017.7.0 up to 2017.7.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 22 October 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-20
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-10-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
salt 2017.7.0 2017.7.2

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