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critical 9.8

CVE-2017-7893 json

SaltStack Salt allows compromised salt-minions to impersonate the salt-master

published 2018-04-23 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-g283-88v5-rmq2 , PYSEC-2018-50 , EUVD-2018-0135

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.6, compromised salt-minions can impersonate the salt-master.

Patch / fix

  • pypi salt 2016.3.6
  • saltstack salt 2016.3.6

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-2017-7893 updated cvss 7.6

salt: Compromised salt-minions can impersonate the salt-master

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 salt Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 salt, salt-minion
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

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

1.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% 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 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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
<2016.3.6
2016.3.6

References

Sources

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