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UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5200 (CVE-2017-5200)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2017-09-26 14:29 – Updated: 2026-04-08 12:23 – Source website

Details

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. Users of Salt-API and salt-ssh could execute a command on the salt master via a hole when both systems were enabled.

Severity

8.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5200	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5200	REPORT

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-26 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:55

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

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/relea…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.3/topics/relea…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/relea…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2017-07-18 00:00

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