🛡️ CVE-2017-5200 — salt

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

Description

SaltStack Salt arbitrary command execution in Salt-api via ssh_client

Salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2 allows arbitrary command execution on a salt-master via Salt's ssh_client.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level 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.

Affected software

CVE-2017-5200 is recorded against 1 package.

  • salt (from 2016.11.0 up to 2016.11.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 1 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-12-01
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
salt 2016.11.0 2016.11.2

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