CVE-2016-1866 (GCVE-0-2016-1866)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-12 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:10
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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.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-01-25 00:00
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