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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2017-14696 json

SaltStack Salt Denial of Service via a crafted authentication request

published 2017-10-24 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-657p-cj5r-mjrh , PYSEC-2017-37 , EUVD-2017-0121

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.8%
EPSS 3.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi salt 2016.3.8, 2016.11.8, 2017.7.2
  • salt Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • salt Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14696

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • icu4j Manager Server 3.1 55.1-1.3.1
  • smdba Manager Server 3.1 1.6.2-0.2.9.1
  • hadoop Manager Server 3.1 0.18.1-1.3.1
  • lucene Manager Server 3.1 2.4.1-1.3.1
  • tagsoup Manager Server 3.1 1.2.1-1.3.1
  • nekohtml Manager Server 3.1 1.9.21-1.3.1
  • spacecmd Manager Server 3.1 2.7.8.13-2.26.1
  • spacewalk Manager Server 3.1 2.7.0.6-2.6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:3811-1SUSE-SU-2018:1757-1SUSE-SU-2017:3381-1SUSE-SU-2017:3380-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-14696 updated cvss 7.5

salt: Remote DoS via crafted authentication request

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 salt Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 salt, salt-minion Red Hat Storage Console 2 salt
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi salt
<2016.3.8
>=2016.11.0, <2016.11.8
>=2017.7.0, <2017.7.2
>=2016.11, <2016.11.8
>=2017.7, <2017.7.2
2016.3.8
2016.11.8
2017.7.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.