Security advisory

{
  "id": "1d36452aeca407ef09d33543e883197da2e515aa3da35913976bbe6a84dac5a5",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1866",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-1866",
    "summary": "Salt 2015.8.x before 2015.8.4 does not properly handle clear messages on the minion, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by inserting packets into the minion-master data stream.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-1866",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-1866",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-1866",
        "GHSA-vqh4-crjf-jjxx",
        "PYSEC-2016-23"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/saltstack/salt",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "34324abe562f6326618e290611a1737714118749"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "345206b68e97465c18450227e21adb888dd87358"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:2015.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2015.8.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2015.8.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:2015.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2015.8.1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2015.8.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:2015.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2015.8.2"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2015.8.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:2015.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2015.8.3"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2015.8.3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2015.8.0",
            "2015.8.1",
            "2015.8.2",
            "2015.8.3",
            "v2015.8.3",
            "v2015.8.2",
            "v2015.8.1",
            "v2015.8.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-1866.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:43.011206392Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.4.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:leap",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "42.1"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "42.1"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-1866",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 435505,
  "published_at": "2016-04-12T14:59:09.087+00:00"
}