CVE catalog
CVE-2016-3176
Security update for salt
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 5.6
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L - Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.87% · Oct 25, 2026
Zach Malone discovered that Salt did not properly handle permissions to cache data. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2015-8034) Dylan Frese discovered that Salt incorrectly allowed users to specify PAM service. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication. (CVE-2016-3176)
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.16.0-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.16.4-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.1+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.2-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.2-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.2-3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.4-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.4-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.5-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.5+ds-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm4 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm5 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.16.0-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.16.4-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.1+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.2-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.2-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.2-3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.4-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.4-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.5-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.5+ds-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm4 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm5 | fixed |
| Suse | salt | enterprise storage 2 | 2014.1.10-3.1 | fixed |
| Suse | salt | enterprise storage 2.1 | 2014.1.10-5.1 | fixed |
| Suse | salt | enterprise storage 1.0 | 2014.1.10-5.6 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | salt | deb | pro | 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm5 | Not reported | USN-8153-1 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | salt | deb | pro | 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm5 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3176 | Not reported |
| Suse | salt | rpm | enterprise storage 2 | 2014.1.10-3.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2016:0970-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | salt | rpm | enterprise storage 2.1 | 2014.1.10-5.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2016:0972-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | salt | rpm | enterprise storage 1.0 | 2014.1.10-5.6 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2016:1343-1 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/suse-su-2016_0970-1.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0970-1]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0972-1]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:1343-1]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3176]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-8153-1]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2016/cve-2016-3176.json]
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