CVE-2016-1866
high
CVSS v3
8.1
CVSS v2
6.8
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
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.4.html
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1866.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| suse | 42.1 | 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
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.