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Ubuntu: USN-4769-1 (CVE-2017-14696): Salt vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 24, 2017
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted authentication request.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-salt-apiubuntu-pro-upgrade-salt-cloudubuntu-pro-upgrade-salt-commonubuntu-pro-upgrade-salt-masterubuntu-pro-upgrade-salt-minionubuntu-pro-upgrade-salt-proxyubuntu-pro-upgrade-salt-sshubuntu-pro-upgrade-salt-syndic
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