CVE-2017-5200 (GCVE-0-2017-5200)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-26 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2017-07-18 00:00
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