CVE-2016-1866: Opensuse Leap

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Salt 2015.8.x before 2015.8.4 does not properly handle clear messages on the minion, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by inserting packets into the minion-master data stream.

Affected products

• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• SaltStack Salt: version 2015.8.0 only; version 2015.8.1 only; version 2015.8.2 only; version 2015.8.3 only

Published 2016-04-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.