| Name | CVE-2016-1866 |
| Description | Salt 2015.8.x before 2015.8.4 does not properly handle clear messages on the minion, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by inserting packets into the minion-master data stream. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| salt (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2014.1.13+ds-3+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| salt | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| salt | source | (unstable) | 2015.8.5+ds-1 | | | |
Notes
[jessie] - salt <not-affected> (affects only the 2015.8.x releases of Salt)
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.5.html