ubuntu-cve-2016-1866
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2016-04-12 14:59
Modified
2025-09-08 16:43
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "salt-common",
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "salt-master",
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "salt-minion",
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "salt-ssh",
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "salt-syndic",
            "binary_version": "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm4"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "salt",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/salt@0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm4?arch=source\u0026distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.16.0-1",
        "0.16.4-2",
        "0.17.1+dfsg-1",
        "0.17.2-1",
        "0.17.2-2",
        "0.17.2-3",
        "0.17.4-1",
        "0.17.4-2",
        "0.17.5-1",
        "0.17.5+ds-1",
        "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
        "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2",
        "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm4"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1866",
  "modified": "2025-09-08T16:43:36Z",
  "published": "2016-04-12T14:59:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1866"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.5.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1866"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2016-1866"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2026-04-02T04:47:12Z"
}



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