{"action":"Upgrade salt to 2015.8.4 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"2015.8.4","introduced":"2015.8"}],"component":"salt","cve_ids":["CVE-2016-1866"],"ecosystem":"PyPI","epss":0.01516,"exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["2015.8.4"],"ghsa_id":"GHSA-vqh4-crjf-jjxx","id":"tcs_01M5KG6VDVQ1VP02X1SS3MDD1R","modified_at":"2026-06-10T17:02:35.862274083Z","published_at":"2016-04-12T14:59:00Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2016-23","http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00034.html","https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.4.html","https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vqh4-crjf-jjxx"],"severity":{"label":"unknown"},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"PYSEC-2016-23","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2016-23"}],"summary":"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"}