CVE-2017-8109

SaltStack Salt Information Exposure

7.8 HighFix available

The salt-ssh minion code in SaltStack Salt 2016.11 before 2016.11.4 copied over configuration from the Salt Master without adjusting permissions, which might leak credentials to local attackers on configured minions (clients).

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Local
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: Low
User interaction: None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: High

Exploit likelihood

0.43%Down 0.3 points since Apr 14, 2021

What each source reports

NVD Score used 7.8

Record: CVE-2017-8109
CVSS 3.0: 7.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0: 2.1 LowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness: CWE-200
Updated: 2026-11-02

CVE List No score

Record: CVE-2017-8109
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2017-0126 No score

Record: EUVD-2017-0126
Updated: 2026-11-03

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-xcx4-5wq7-g5g7 8.5

SaltStack Salt Information Exposure

Record: GHSA-xcx4-5wq7-g5g7
CVSS 4.0: 8.5 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS 3.0: 7.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness: CWE-200
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSV 7.8

Record: CVE-2017-8109
CVSS 3.0: 7.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSVGHSA-xcx4-5wq7-g5g7 8.5

SaltStack Salt Information Exposure

Record: GHSA-xcx4-5wq7-g5g7
CVSS 4.0: 8.5 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS 3.0: 7.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness: CWE-200
Updated: 2026-11-02

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OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-8109 7.8

Record: UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8109
CVSS 3.0: 7.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSVPYSEC-2017-82 No score

Record: PYSEC-2017-82
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSVSUSE-SU-2017:1581-1 No score

Security update for Salt

This update for salt provides version 2016.11.4 and brings various fixes and improvements:

Adding a salt-minion watchdog for RHEL6 and SLES11 systems (sysV) to restart salt-minion in case of crashes during upgrade.
Fix format error. (bsc#1043111)
Fix ownership for whole master cache directory. (bsc#1035914)
Disable 3rd party runtime packages to be explicitly recommended. (bsc#1040886)
Fix insecure permissions in salt-ssh temporary files. (bsc#1035912, CVE-2017-8109)
Disable custom rosters for Salt SSH via Salt API. (bsc#1011800, CVE-2017-5200)
Orchestrate and batches don't return false failed information anymore.
Speed-up cherrypy by removing sleep call.
Fix os_family grains on SUSE. (bsc#1038855)
Fix setting the language on SUSE systems. (bsc#1038855)
Use SUSE specific salt-api.service. (bsc#1039370)
Fix using hostname for minion ID as '127'.
Fix core grains constants for timezone. (bsc#1032931)
Minor fixes on new pkg.list_downloaded.
Listing all type of advisory patches for Yum module.
Prevents zero length error on Python 2.6.
Fixes zypper test error after backporting.
Raet protocol is no longer supported. (bsc#1020831)
Fix moving SSH data to the new home. (bsc#1027722)
Fix logrotating /var/log/salt/minion. (bsc#1030009)
Fix result of master_tops extension is mutually overwritten. (bsc#1030073)
Allows to set 'timeout' and 'gather_job_timeout' via kwargs.
Allows to set custom timeouts for 'manage.up' and 'manage.status'.
Use salt's ordereddict for comparison.
Fix scripts for salt-proxy.
Add openscap module.
File.get_managed regression fix.
Fix translate variable arguments if they contain hidden keywords. (bsc#1025896)
Added unit test for dockerng.sls_build dryrun.
Added dryrun to dockerng.sls_build.
Update dockerng minimal version requirements.
Fix format error in error parsing.
Keep fix for migrating salt home directory. (bsc#1022562)
Fix salt pkg.latest raises exception if package is not available. (bsc#1012999)
Timezone should always be in UTC. (bsc#1017078)
Fix timezone handling for rpm installtime. (bsc#1017078)
Increasing timeouts for running integrations tests.
Add buildargs option to dockerng.build module.
Fix error when missing ssh-option parameter.
Re-add yum notify plugin.
All kwargs to dockerng.create to provide all features to sls_build as well.
Datetime should be returned always in UTC.
Fix possible crash while deserialising data on infinite recursion in scheduled state. (bsc#1036125)
Documentation refresh to 2016.11.4
For a detailed description, please refer to:
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.4.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.3.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.2.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.1.html

Record: SUSE-SU-2017:1581-1
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSVSUSE-SU-2017:1582-1 No score

Security update for Salt

This update for salt provides version 2016.11.4 and brings various fixes and improvements:

Adding a salt-minion watchdog for RHEL6 and SLES11 systems (sysV) to restart salt-minion in case of crashes during upgrade.
Fix format error. (bsc#1043111)
Fix ownership for whole master cache directory. (bsc#1035914)
Disable 3rd party runtime packages to be explicitly recommended. (bsc#1040886)
Fix insecure permissions in salt-ssh temporary files. (bsc#1035912, CVE-2017-8109)
Disable custom rosters for Salt SSH via Salt API. (bsc#1011800, CVE-2017-5200)
Orchestrate and batches don't return false failed information anymore.
Speed-up cherrypy by removing sleep call.
Fix os_family grains on SUSE. (bsc#1038855)
Fix setting the language on SUSE systems. (bsc#1038855)
Use SUSE specific salt-api.service. (bsc#1039370)
Fix using hostname for minion ID as '127'.
Fix core grains constants for timezone. (bsc#1032931)
Minor fixes on new pkg.list_downloaded.
Listing all type of advisory patches for Yum module.
Prevents zero length error on Python 2.6.
Fixes zypper test error after backporting.
Raet protocol is no longer supported. (bsc#1020831)
Fix moving SSH data to the new home. (bsc#1027722)
Fix logrotating /var/log/salt/minion. (bsc#1030009)
Fix result of master_tops extension is mutually overwritten. (bsc#1030073)
Allows to set 'timeout' and 'gather_job_timeout' via kwargs.
Allows to set custom timeouts for 'manage.up' and 'manage.status'.
Use salt's ordereddict for comparison.
Fix scripts for salt-proxy.
Add openscap module.
File.get_managed regression fix.
Fix translate variable arguments if they contain hidden keywords. (bsc#1025896)
Added unit test for dockerng.sls_build dryrun.
Added dryrun to dockerng.sls_build.
Update dockerng minimal version requirements.
Fix format error in error parsing.
Keep fix for migrating salt home directory. (bsc#1022562)
Fix salt pkg.latest raises exception if package is not available. (bsc#1012999)
Timezone should always be in UTC. (bsc#1017078)
Fix timezone handling for rpm installtime. (bsc#1017078)
Increasing timeouts for running integrations tests.
Add buildargs option to dockerng.build module.
Fix error when missing ssh-option parameter.
Re-add yum notify plugin.
All kwargs to dockerng.create to provide all features to sls_build as well.
Datetime should be returned always in UTC.
Fix possible crash while deserialising data on infinite recursion in scheduled state. (bsc#1036125)
Documentation refresh to 2016.11.4
For a detailed description, please refer to:
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.4.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.3.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.2.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.1.html

Record: SUSE-SU-2017:1582-1
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

saltstack salt

Affected packages

Affected packages
Package	Affected	Fixed
`salt` PyPI	2016.11 up to 2016.11.4	2016.11.4
`salt` PyPI	2016.11 up to 2016.11.4, plus listed versions 2016.11.02016.11.12016.11.22016.11.3	2016.11.4
`salt` SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-CLIENT-TOOLS From an advisory covering 2 CVEs	before 2016.11.4-42.2	2016.11.4-42.2
`salt` SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-CLIENT-TOOLS From an advisory covering 2 CVEs	before 2016.11.4-42.2	2016.11.4-42.2
`salt` SUSE:Manager Client Tools 12 From an advisory covering 2 CVEs	before 2016.11.4-45.2	2016.11.4-45.2
`salt` SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Advanced Systems Management 12 From an advisory covering 2 CVEs	before 2016.11.4-45.2	2016.11.4-45.2
`salt` SUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2 From an advisory covering 2 CVEs	before 2016.11.4-45.2	2016.11.4-45.2
`salt` SUSE:Manager Proxy 3.0 From an advisory covering 2 CVEs	before 2016.11.4-45.2	2016.11.4-45.2
`salt` SUSE:Manager Server 3.0 From an advisory covering 2 CVEs	before 2016.11.4-45.2	2016.11.4-45.2
`salt` SUSE:Enterprise Storage 3 From an advisory covering 2 CVEs	before 2016.11.4-45.2	2016.11.4-45.2
`salt` SUSE:Enterprise Storage 4 From an advisory covering 2 CVEs	before 2016.11.4-45.2	2016.11.4-45.2

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 6, 2026	affected, facts
Nov 3, 2026	affected
Nov 3, 2026	aliases	EUVD
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2017-8109 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) in Saltstack Salt, published April 25, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.43%, the 37th percentile. Fixed in salt 2016.11.4.

References

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