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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- SALTSTACK
- Published
- 9/26/2017
- 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 : saltsaltstack : salt
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