CVE-2016-3176

mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.009 · 59 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.87% (59th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

11 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Salt before 2015.5.10 and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.8, when PAM external authentication is enabled, allows attackers to bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command sent to LocalClient.

cvss

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

5.6

010

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

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.05.6mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.4

v3.05.6mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lsecondary · OSV

v3.05.1mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-287USprimaryCWE-287US

affected products (11)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
saltstack salt≤ 2015.5.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2015.8.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2015.8.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2015.8.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI salt< 2015.5.10osvUSpkg:pypi/salt
PyPI salt2015.8 → 2015.8.8osvUSpkg:pypi/salt

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-v2rp-9cpj-pfw2Salt Insecure configuration of PAM external authentication service2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
Salt before 2015.5.10 and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.8, when PAM external authentication is enabled, allows attackers to bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command sent to LocalClient.
PYSEC-2017-332017-01-31vendor · osvUS
Salt before 2015.5.10 and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.8, when PAM external authentication is enabled, allows attackers to bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command sent to LocalClient.

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 2017-01-31modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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