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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2016-9639

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CVE-2016-9639

salt: Vulnerable caching provides access to private pillar data

Published Modified CWE 284
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
GHSA9.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Red Hat5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium).

Description

Salt before 2015.8.11 allows deleted minions to read or write to minions with the same id, related to caching.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
pip::GitHub Security Advisory pipsalt2015.8.11
debian 8saltno fix listed
Red Hatsalt, salt-minionno fix listed
Show all 4 entries from 3 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
pip::GitHub Security Advisory pipsalt2015.8.11
debian 8saltno fix listed
Red Hatsaltno fix listed
Red Hatsalt-minionno fix listed

References

All 11 references

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