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high 7.5

CVE-2013-6617 json

SaltStack Privilege Escalation vulnerability

published 13y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-7wx3-vr2f-6p29 , PYSEC-2013-15 , EUVD-2013-0037

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The salt master in Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.11.0 through 0.17.0 does not properly drop group privileges, which makes it easier for remote attackers to gain privileges.

Patch / fix

  • pypi salt 0.17.1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-6617 updated cvss 2.9

salt: saltstack multiple flaws

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi salt
>=0.11.0, <0.17.1
0.17.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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