{"id":"CVE-2015-6941","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2015-6941","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:50:44.972Z","title":"win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.","description":"win_useradd, salt-cloud and the Linode driver in salt 2015.5.x before 2015.5.6, and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.1 leak password information in debug logs.","published":"2017-08-09T16:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:31:39.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-534"],"affected":["saltstack/salt 2015"],"epss":{"score":0.02831,"percentile":0.86526,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.83%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273066","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.5.6.html","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.1.html","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/twangboy/salt/commit/c0689e32154c41f59840ae10ffc5fbfa30618710","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273066","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.5.6.html","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.1.html","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/twangboy/salt/commit/c0689e32154c41f59840ae10ffc5fbfa30618710","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6941","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}