CVE-2015-6941

mediumpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.028 · 87 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.83% (87th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

10 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.

cvss

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

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–critical · 5–9.8

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.09.8criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.09.8criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.09criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-534USprimaryCWE-200US

affected products (10)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
saltstack salt 2015= 5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt_2015:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt 2015= 5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt_2015:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt 2015= 5.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt_2015:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt 2015= 5.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt_2015:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt 2015= 5.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt_2015:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt 2015= 5.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt_2015:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt 2015= 8.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt_2015:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI salt2015.5 → 2015.5.6osvUSpkg:pypi/salt
PyPI salt2015.8 → 2015.8.1osvUSpkg:pypi/salt

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-cxm4-7qcw-267rsalt password information leaked in debug logs2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.
PYSEC-2017-712017-08-09vendor · osvUS
win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-08-09modified 2026-06-17

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references (12)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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