CVE-2016-3176 (GCVE-0-2016-3176)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-01-31 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 23:47
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Salt before 2015.5.10 and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.8, when PAM external authentication is enabled, allows attackers to bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command sent to LocalClient.
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