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CVE-2013-6617

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6617 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in SaltStack Salt versions 0.11.0 through 0.17.0, where the salt master fails to properly drop group privileges. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a severe risk with network-based attacks, low complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.13.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.14.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:0.15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.05%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0305 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: saltFixed in: 0.17.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-7wx3-vr2f-6p29high

SaltStack Privilege Escalation vulnerability

May 17, 2022

References

docs.saltstack.com / topics/releases/0.17.1.html