CVE-2016-1866

mediumpriority · track · 33EPSS 0.015 · 74 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.52% (74th) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

8 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Salt 2015.8.x before 2015.8.4 does not properly handle clear messages on the minion, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by inserting packets into the minion-master data stream.

cvss

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

8.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–8.1

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4

v3.08.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 5.9

v3.08.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.07.4highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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-284USprimaryCWE-284US

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
opensuse leap= 42.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2015.8.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2015.8.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2015.8.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2015.8.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI salt2015.8 → 2015.8.4osvUSpkg:pypi/salt
PyPI salt2015.8.0rc1 → 2015.8.4osvUSpkg:pypi/salt

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-vqh4-crjf-jjxxSalt Improper Access Control2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
Salt 2015.8.x before 2015.8.4 does not properly handle clear messages on the minion, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by inserting packets into the minion-master data stream.
PYSEC-2016-232016-04-12vendor · osvUS
Salt 2015.8.x before 2015.8.4 does not properly handle clear messages on the minion, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by inserting packets into the minion-master data stream.

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 2016-04-12modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

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