CVE-2016-3176
medium
CVSS v3
5.6
CVSS v2
4.3
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
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.8.html
Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.5.10.html
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3176.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | 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
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.