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CVE-2017-14696 high CVSS 7.5

Vulnerability in salt (CVE-2017-14696)

Summary

Vulnerability in salt (CVE-2017-14696). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.8, 2017.7.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-14696 has been found in salt.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10.
What to do: upgrade salt to 5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.8, 2017.7.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "salt CVE-2017-14696" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2017-14696 (salt) — CWE-20 / CVSS v3 7.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.8, 2017.7.2 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (CWE-20) exists in salt.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of salt.

🔥 Severity

Severity: High (CVSS 7.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.8, 2017.7.2.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'salt' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

  1. 1
    Identify exposure identify 
    grep -r 'salt' . | grep -v node_modules

    リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で salt を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。

  2. 2
    Apply patch patch 
    Upgrade salt to 5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.8, 2017.7.2

    ステージング環境で 5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.8, 2017.7.2 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。

  3. 3
    Post-deployment verification verify 
    Confirm patched version is live in production

    パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

PyPI salt
[{"repo":"https:\/\/github.com\/saltstack\/salt","type":"GIT","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5f8b5e1a0f23fe0f2be5b3c3e04199b57a53db5b"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2016.3.8"},{"introduced":"2016.11"},{"fixed":"2016.11.8"},{"introduced":"2017.7"},{"fixed":"2017.7.2"}]}]

References

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