{"id":76024,"date":"2026-01-30T22:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-62349-salt-master-authentication-protocol-downgrade-may-enable-minion-impersonation\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:16:11","slug":"cve-2025-62349-salt-master-authentication-protocol-downgrade-may-enable-minion-impersonation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-62349-salt-master-authentication-protocol-downgrade-may-enable-minion-impersonation\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-62349 &#8211; Salt Master authentication protocol downgrade may enable minion impersonation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-62349<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Jan. 30, 2026, 7:16 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 55\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : Salt contains an authentication protocol version downgrade weakness that can allow a malicious minion to bypass newer authentication\/security features by using an older request payload format, enabling minion impersonation and circumventing protections introduced in response to prior issues.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 7.5 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-62349 Published : Jan. 30, 2026, 7:16 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 55\u00a0minutes ago Description : Salt contains an authentication protocol version downgrade weakness that can allow a malicious minion to bypass newer authentication\/security features by using an older request payload format, enabling minion impersonation and circumventing protections introduced in response to prior issues. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}