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Salt Insecure configuration of PAM external authentication service

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 29, 2024

Package

pip salt (pip)

Affected versions

< 2015.5.10
>= 2015.8, < 2015.8.8

Patched versions

2015.5.10
2015.8.8

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 31, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Apr 29, 2024
Last updated Apr 29, 2024

Severity

Moderate
5.6
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-3176

GHSA ID

GHSA-v2rp-9cpj-pfw2

Source code

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