🛡️ CVE-2017-7893 — salt

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

SaltStack Salt allows compromised salt-minions to impersonate the salt-master

In SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.6, compromised salt-minions can impersonate the salt-master.

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. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2017-7893 is recorded against 1 package.

  • salt (fixed in 2016.3.6)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 6 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-12-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
salt — 2016.3.6

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