CVE-2013-6617

highpriority · track · 41EPSS 0.030 · 87 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.05% (87th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

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13 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

The salt master in Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.11.0 through 0.17.0 does not properly drop group privileges, which makes it easier for remote attackers to gain privileges.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v2.08.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimary

affected products (13)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
saltstack salt= 0.11.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 0.12.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 0.13.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 0.14.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 0.15.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 0.15.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 0.16.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 0.16.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 0.16.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 0.16.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 0.17.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI salt0.11.0 → 0.17.1osvUSpkg:pypi/salt

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-7wx3-vr2f-6p29SaltStack Privilege Escalation vulnerability2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
The salt master in Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.11.0 through 0.17.0 does not properly drop group privileges, which makes it easier for remote attackers to gain privileges.
PYSEC-2013-152013-11-05vendor · osvUS
The salt master in Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.11.0 through 0.17.0 does not properly drop group privileges, which makes it easier for remote attackers to gain privileges.

also known as (6)

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2013-11-05modified 2026-06-17

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references (3)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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