Improper access control in Salt - CVE-2016-9639

Vulnerability identifier: #VU12733

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9639

CWE-ID: CWE-284

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: SaltStack

Affected software:
Salt

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information and write arbitrary files on the target system.

The weakness exists due to improper access control. A remote attacker can read or write to minions with the same id, related to caching.

Update to version 2015.8.11.

• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2015.8/ref/configuration/master.html#rotate-aes-key