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CVE-2017-14696
SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 3.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 10.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted authentication request.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 32 days later
· 32 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.8% · top 10.0% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
7
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2017:2824 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2017:2822 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500742 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-0121 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-657p-cj5r-mjrh (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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