CVE-2017-7893

highpriority · track · 39OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.014 · 72 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.39% (72nd) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

3 products

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

In SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.6, compromised salt-minions can impersonate the salt-master.

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 · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

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)

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-345USLLM-inferred

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-g283-88v5-rmq2SaltStack Salt allows compromised salt-minions to impersonate the salt-master2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
In SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.6, compromised salt-minions can impersonate the salt-master.
PYSEC-2018-502018-04-23vendor · osvUS
In SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.6, compromised salt-minions can impersonate the salt-master.

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

Which sources assert this record, and when.

published 2018-04-23modified 2026-06-17

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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