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Debian: CVE-2016-3176: salt -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 31, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Salt before 2015.5.10 and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.8, when PAM external authentication is enabled, allows attackers to bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command sent to LocalClient.

Solution

debian-upgrade-salt
Title
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