vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2025-62349: Improper Authentication

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:P)
Published
Jan 30, 2026
Added
Feb 2, 2026
Modified
Feb 2, 2026

Description

Salt contains an authentication protocol version downgrade weakness that can allow a malicious minion to bypass newer authentication/security features by using an older request payload format, enabling minion impersonation and circumventing protections introduced in response to prior issues.

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-salt-ltsalpine-linux-upgrade-salt
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