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Vulnerability details: VCID-ac31-t3u6-cfap
Vulnerability ID VCID-ac31-t3u6-cfap
Aliases CVE-2016-1866
GHSA-vqh4-crjf-jjxx
PYSEC-2016-23
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-284 Improper Access Control
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00034.html
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.4.html
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2016-23.yaml
https://github.com/saltstack/salt
CVE-2016-1866 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1866
GHSA-vqh4-crjf-jjxx https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vqh4-crjf-jjxx
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.

Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:04:10.817817+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2016-23.yaml 38.6.0