CVE-2016-1866

HIGH

Salt 2015.8.x < 2015.8.4 - Remote Code Execution via Minion-Master Data Stream

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.4.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00034.html

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1

EPSS 0.0063

EPSS Percentile 70.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-284

Status published

Products (6)

opensuse/leap 42.1

pypi/salt 2015.8.0rc1 - 2015.8.4PyPI

saltstack/salt 2015.8.0

saltstack/salt 2015.8.1

saltstack/salt 2015.8.2

saltstack/salt 2015.8.3

Published Apr 12, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026