Name: CVE-2015-6941: DEPRECATED: Information Exposure Through Debug Log Files
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-08-09T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2015-6941, CWE-534, CVSS 9.8, EPSS 0.02238

win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 9.8
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade salt	Jul 30, 2024	Aug 9, 2017
Freebsd	—	Upgrade py27-salt	Dec 10, 2025	Oct 17, 2015
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade salt-ssh (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade salt-proxy (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade salt-master (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade salt-common (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade salt-minion (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade salt-cloud (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade salt-syndic (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade salt-api (Ubuntu Pro)	Mar 22, 2023	Aug 9, 2017

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CVSS Details

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