CVE-2016-1866 in Salt

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 01/12/2016
• Disclosure: 04/12/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-284 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 8.1
• EPSS: 0.00628
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1866
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1866
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-1866/