CVE-2016-1866
high
CVSS v3
8.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.1
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
88%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 42.1 | Affected | — |
| — | Affected | — |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1866.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00034.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.4.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1866
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2016-23.yaml
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt
CWEs
CWE-284
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.