UnratedRed Hat & Ubuntu Linux
Salt vulnerabilities
USN-8153-1 Published Apr 7, 2026
CVE-2015-8034CVE-2016-3176
Affected products & platforms
Red Hat & Ubuntu LinuxUnclassified
Summary
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) Affected Ubuntu releases: 14.04. CVEs: CVE-2016-3176, CVE-2015-8034.
Affected versions
- Ubuntu 14.04
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
Recommended fix / mitigation
- Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
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