Security advisory

{
  "id": "848b7bcd9afb49cb517ddaefabebf75d6fb8d00d174f965a314db227b1311583",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9639",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-9639",
    "summary": "Salt before 2015.8.11 allows deleted minions to read or write to minions with the same id, related to caching.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-9639",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-9639",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-9639",
        "GHSA-hvmj-356c-gpf4",
        "PYSEC-2017-34"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/saltstack/salt",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "c3d2c4eaaef3f26e58d2f676c7456987af866155"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2015.8.10"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v2015.8.10",
            "v2015.8.9",
            "v2015.8.8",
            "v2015.8.4",
            "v2015.8",
            "v2015.8.3",
            "v2015.8.2",
            "v2015.8.1",
            "v2015.8.0",
            "v2015.8.0rc5",
            "v2015.8.0rc4",
            "v2015.8.0rc3",
            "v2015.8.0rc2",
            "v2015.8.0rc1",
            "v2015.5",
            "v2015.2",
            "v2014.7",
            "v2014.1",
            "v0.17",
            "v0.16",
            "v0.15.0",
            "v0.14.0",
            "v0.13.0",
            "v0.12.0",
            "v0.11.0",
            "v0.10.5",
            "v0.10.4",
            "v0.10.3",
            "v0.10.2",
            "v0.10.1",
            "v0.10.0",
            "v0.9.9",
            "v0.9.3",
            "v0.9.2",
            "v0.9.1",
            "v0.9.0",
            "v0.8.9",
            "v0.8.7",
            "v0.8.0",
            "v0.7.0",
            "v0.6.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9639.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:57.497017578Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2015.8/ref/configuration/master.html#rotate-aes-key"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-9639",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 438876,
  "published_at": "2017-02-07T17:59:00.617+00:00"
}