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CVE-2017-7893

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7893 describes a critical vulnerability in SaltStack Salt versions prior to 2016.3.6, allowing compromised salt-minions to impersonate the salt-master. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this flaw presents a severe risk as it can be exploited remotely with low complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness within the security community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2016.3.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0140 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: saltFixed in: 2016.3.6
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3Fixed in: salt
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 2Fixed in: salt

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-g283-88v5-rmq2critical

SaltStack Salt allows compromised salt-minions to impersonate the salt-master

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2017-7893Moderate

salt: Compromised salt-minions can impersonate the salt-master

Mar 22, 2017

References

docs.saltstack.com / en/2017.7/topics/releases/2016.3.6.html
Vendor Advisory