CVE-2017-14696
SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted authentication request.
02 Description
SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted authentication request.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.69% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-10-24 17:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 19:34Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-09-22
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ca4a4b0caa190e3bdaf13a2f3e277be3abd144b3e814764ddb971d13f25bf3e7
05 Affected products
06 References
- docs.saltstack.comhttps://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2017:2824http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2017:2822http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b
- docs.saltstack.comhttps://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html
- docs.saltstack.comhttps://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500742
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- salt Fixed in 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- salt Fixed in 2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.