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CVE-2017-14696

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted authentication request.

Affected products

• VMware SALT: through 2016.3.7; 2016.11, 2016.11.0, 2016.11.1, 2016.11.1-rc1, 2016.11.1-rc2, 2016.11.2 (+8)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500742
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html
• https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500742
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html

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