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CVE-2016-1866

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

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.

Affected products

• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• VMware SALT: 2015.8.0, 2015.8.1, 2015.8.2, 2015.8.3

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00034.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.4.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00034.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.4.html

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