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CVE-2015-6941

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-534

Description

win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.

Affected products

• SaltStack Salt 2015: 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 (+1)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273066
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.5.6.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.1.html
• https://github.com/twangboy/salt/commit/c0689e32154c41f59840ae10ffc5fbfa30618710
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273066
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.5.6.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.1.html
• https://github.com/twangboy/salt/commit/c0689e32154c41f59840ae10ffc5fbfa30618710

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