CVE-2025-62349 (GCVE-0-2025-62349)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-30 18:59 – Updated: 2026-02-26 15:04
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Salt Master authentication protocol downgrade may enable minion impersonation
Summary
Salt contains an authentication protocol version downgrade weakness that can allow a malicious minion to bypass newer authentication/security features by using an older request payload format, enabling minion impersonation and circumventing protections introduced in response to prior issues.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-31 04:56 UTC
CWE
- CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/rele… | release-notesvendor-advisory |
| https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/rele… | release-notesvendor-advisory |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Project | Salt |
Affected:
3006.12 , < 3006.17
(semver)
|
guessed | |
| Salt Project | Salt |
Affected:
3007.4 , < 3007.9
(semver)
|
guessed |
Date Public
2025-11-20 05:00
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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