{"answers":{"affected":"5 open source packages ship an affected version, including salt. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3176 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade salt to a fixed version for your release line: 2015.5.10 or 2015.8.8.","what":"CVE-2016-3176 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Saltstack Salt, published on 31 Jan 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-3176 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-3176 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Saltstack Salt, published on 31 Jan 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3176 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- salt (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2015.5.10, 2015.8.8\n- salt (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2015.5.10\n- salt (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2015.5.10\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2015.8; fixed in 2015.8.8\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 2015.8; fixed in 2015.8.8\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-3176/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-3176/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-3176","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-3176/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-3176","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-v2rp-9cpj-pfw2","PYSEC-2017-33","SUSE-SU-2016:0970-1","SUSE-SU-2016:0972-1","SUSE-SU-2016:1343-1","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3176"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Salt configuration management","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can bypass authentication in Salt by passing an alternate service when PAM external authentication is 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vulnerability","id":"CVE-2013-6617","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2013-11-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2021-33226","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-02-17"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"salt-api unauthenticated remote code execution","id":"CVE-2021-25315","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-03-03"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"SaltStack Salt Remote command execution and incorrect access control when using salt-api","id":"CVE-2018-15751","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-10-24"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"SaltStack Salt allows compromised salt-minions to impersonate the salt-master","id":"CVE-2017-7893","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-04-23"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"SaltStack Salt Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation","id":"CVE-2017-14695","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-10-24"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE 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