CVE-2016-9639

Publication date 7 February 2017

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Salt before 2015.8.11 allows deleted minions to read or write to minions with the same id, related to caching.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
salt	25.10 questing	Not in release
	25.04 plucky	Not in release
	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

seth-arnold

The rotate_aes_key setting in 2015.8.11 and newer defeats this issue. If it is disabled in newer releases this issue is re-opened.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.1 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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