usn-8153-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2026-04-07 14:05
Modified
2026-04-07 14:05
Summary
salt vulnerabilities
Details

Zach Malone discovered that Salt did not properly handle permissions to cache data. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2015-8034) Dylan Frese discovered that Salt incorrectly allowed users to specify PAM service. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication. (CVE-2016-3176)

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  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "cves_map": {
          "cves": [
            {
              "id": "CVE-2015-8034",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "low",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-3176",
              "severity": [
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                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS"
        }
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro with Legacy support add-on: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
        "binaries": [
          {
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          },
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          },
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            "binary_name": "salt-minion",
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          },
          {
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "salt-syndic",
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          }
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      },
      "ranges": [
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          "events": [
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              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
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            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
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        "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",
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        "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2",
        "0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm4"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Zach Malone discovered that Salt did not properly handle permissions to cache\ndata. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive\ninformation. (CVE-2015-8034)\nDylan Frese discovered that Salt incorrectly allowed users to specify PAM\nservice. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication.\n(CVE-2016-3176)",
  "id": "USN-8153-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-07T14:05:38Z",
  "published": "2026-04-07T14:05:38Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8153-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8034"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3176"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "salt vulnerabilities",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8034",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3176"
  ]
}



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