Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-3176
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2016-3176
Complete source record
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