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CVE-2016-9639 (GCVE-0-2016-9639)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-07 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:59
VLAI
Summary
Salt before 2015.8.11 allows deleted minions to read or write to minions with the same id, related to caching.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-11-25 00:00
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