CVE-2016-9639
critical
CVSS v3
9.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.1
Description
Salt before 2015.8.11 allows deleted minions to read or write to minions with the same id, related to caching.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
94%
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.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | salt | <2015.8.11 | 2015.8.11 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| saltstack | salt | {"endIncluding":"2015.8.10"} | |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/25/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/25/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94553
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2015.8/ref/configuration/master.html#rotate-aes-key
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9639.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9639
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.11.html#new-master-configuration-parameter
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-34.yaml
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200227212146/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94553
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.