CVE-2017-14696

high
Published 2022-05-17 · Modified 2024-04-22
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
5.0
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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14696.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500742

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIsalt<2016.3.82016.3.8
python PyPIsalt>=2016.11.0,<2016.11.82016.11.8
python PyPIsalt>=2017.7.0,<2017.7.22017.7.2
python PyPIsalt<5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b||>=2017.7,<2017.7.25f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
saltstacksalt{"endIncluding":"2016.3.7"}
saltstacksalt2016.11
saltstacksalt2016.11.0
saltstacksalt2016.11.1
saltstacksalt2016.11.2
saltstacksalt2016.11.3
saltstacksalt2016.11.4
saltstacksalt2016.11.5
saltstacksalt2016.11.6
saltstacksalt2016.11.7
saltstacksalt2017.7.0
saltstacksalt2017.7.1

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.