CVE-2016-1866

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CVSS 3.0

8.1 high

EPSS

2%p73

Published

Apr 12, 2016 (Apr 12, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: saltstack opensuse
Products: salt, leap
Weakness: CWE-284
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.5%)

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