High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-14696
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2017-14696
Complete source record
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