CVE-2017-14696
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
โ
VIR risk
7.5
Description
SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted authentication request.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
โ
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ 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 |
|---|---|---|
| โ | Affected | โ |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| saltstack | salt | {"endIncluding":"2016.3.7"} | |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11 | |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.0 | |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.1 | |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.2 | |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.3 | |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.4 | |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.5 | |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.6 | |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.7 | |
| saltstack | salt | 2017.7.0 | |
| saltstack | salt | 2017.7.1 | |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14696
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500742
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-37.yaml
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14696.html
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.