Skip to content
Fencer Intel
critical 9.8

CVE-2015-6941 json

salt password information leaked in debug logs

published 2017-08-09 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-cxm4-7qcw-267r , PYSEC-2017-71 , EUVD-2017-0125

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.9%
EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.

Patch / fix

  • pypi salt 2015.5.6, 2015.8.1
  • salt Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6941

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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-2015-6941 updated cvss 5.5

salt: win_useradd module and salt-cloud display passwords in debug log

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2 salt Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 salt
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

2.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi salt
>=2015.5, <2015.5.6
>=2015.8, <2015.8.1
2015.5.6
2015.8.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-534 DEPRECATED: Information Exposure Through Debug Log Files
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.