CVE-2016-3176
medium
CVSS v3
5.6
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.6
Description
Salt before 2015.5.10 and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.8, when PAM external authentication is enabled, allows attackers to bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command sent to LocalClient.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
66%
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 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3176.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.5.10.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.8.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3176
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-33.yaml
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt
CWEs
CWE-287
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.