CVE-2017-8109

Publication date 25 April 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The salt-ssh minion code in SaltStack Salt 2016.11 before 2016.11.4 copied over configuration from the Salt Master without adjusting permissions, which might leak credentials to local attackers on configured minions (clients).

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
salt	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/40075
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/40609
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/8492cef7a5c8871a3978ffc2f6e48b3b960e0151
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035912
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.4.html
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/40609/commits/6e34c2b5e5e849302af7ccd00509929c3809c658
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8109