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Vulnerability details: VCID-gfyd-1pm9-gfa9
Vulnerability ID VCID-gfyd-1pm9-gfa9
Aliases CVE-2017-5200
GHSA-8r7r-x48r-pf8f
PYSEC-2017-39
Summary Salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2 allows arbitrary command execution on a salt-master via Salt's ssh_client.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
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
epss 0.00932 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5200
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/releases/2015.8.13.html
generic_textual HIGH https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/releases/2015.8.13.html
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/releases/2016.3.5.html
generic_textual HIGH https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/releases/2016.3.5.html
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.2.html
generic_textual HIGH https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.2.html
cvssv2 6 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-39.yaml
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-39.yaml
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://github.com/saltstack/salt
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/saltstack/salt
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5200
generic_textual HIGH https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5200
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5200
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://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-39.yaml
https://github.com/saltstack/salt
CVE-2017-5200 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5200
GHSA-8r7r-x48r-pf8f https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8r7r-x48r-pf8f
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/releases/2015.8.13.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/releases/2016.3.5.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.2.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-39.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://github.com/saltstack/salt
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5200
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.76462
EPSS Score 0.00932
Published At May 30, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-30T20:17:24.901715+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-39.yaml 38.6.0