CVE-2017-5200 (GCVE-0-2017-5200)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-26 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:55
VLAI
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.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2362 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2017-07-18 00:00
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