CVE-2015-6941
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273066
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.5.6.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.1.html
- https://github.com/twangboy/salt/commit/c0689e32154c41f59840ae10ffc5fbfa30618710
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6941
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/c0689e32154c41f59840ae10ffc5fbfa30618710
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/fdd35374562658f4a20767a3703fab93d92f9ca9
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-71.yaml
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt
CWEs
CWE-534
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.