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Fencer Intel
high 8.8

CVE-2017-5200 json

SaltStack Salt arbitrary command execution in Salt-api via ssh_client

published 2017-09-26 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-8r7r-x48r-pf8f , PYSEC-2017-39 , EUVD-2017-0123

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2 allows arbitrary command execution on a salt-master via Salt's ssh_client.

Patch / fix

  • pypi salt 2015.8.13, 2016.3.5, 2016.11.2
  • salt SLE Point of Sale 12 SP2, SLE Module for Advanced Systems Management 12, Manager Server 3.0 +4 more 2016.11.4-45.2
  • salt SLES 11 SP4-CLIENT-TOOLS, SLES 11 SP3-CLIENT-TOOLS 2016.11.4-42.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:1582-1SUSE-SU-2017:1581-1

  • salt Alpine 3.5 2016.11.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-5200

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org 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-2017-5200 updated cvss 7.5

salt: Salt-api allows arbitrary command execution on a salt-master via Salt's ssh_client

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 salt Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 salt, salt-minion Red Hat Storage Console 2 salt
    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

3.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
GitHub 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi salt
<2015.8.13
>=2016.3.0, <2016.3.5
>=2016.11.0, <2016.11.2
>=2016.3, <2016.3.5
>=2016.11, <2016.11.2
2015.8.13
2016.3.5
2016.11.2

References

Sources

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