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CVE-2017-5192

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

When using the local_batch client from salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2, external authentication is not respected, enabling all authentication to be bypassed.

Affected products

• VMware SALT: through 2015.8.12; 2016.3.0, 2016.3.1, 2016.3.2, 2016.3.3, 2016.3.4, 2016.11.0 (+2)

References

• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/releases/2015.8.13.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/releases/2016.3.5.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.2.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/releases/2015.8.13.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/releases/2016.3.5.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.2.html

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