CVE-2017-8109

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The salt-ssh minion code in SaltStack Salt 2016.11 before 2016.11.4 copied over configuration from the Salt Master without adjusting permissions, which might leak credentials to local attackers on configured minions (clients).

Affected products

VMware SALT: 2016.11, 2016.11.0, 2016.11.0-rc1, 2016.11.0-rc2, 2016.11.1, 2016.11.2 (+1)

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98095
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035912
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.4.html
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/40075
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/40609
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/40609/commits/6e34c2b5e5e849302af7ccd00509929c3809c658
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98095
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035912
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.4.html
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/40075
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/40609
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/40609/commits/6e34c2b5e5e849302af7ccd00509929c3809c658

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