Authorization Bypass

Salt is vulnerable to an Authorization Bypass. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of minion messages, allowing an attacker with access to a minion key to execute jobs on other minions...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1866

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...