Description
Salt before 2015.5.10 and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.8, when PAM external authentication is enabled, allows attackers to bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command sent to LocalClient.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- none
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- low
- Integrity
- low
- Availability
- low
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- SALTSTACK
- Published
- 1/31/2017
- Last Modified
- 4/20/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
saltstack : saltsaltstack : saltsaltstack : saltsaltstack : saltsaltstack : saltsaltstack : saltsaltstack : saltsaltstack : salt
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