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CVE-2017-12791

critical

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation in SaltStack Salt before 2016.11.7 and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.1 allows remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID.

References

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100384

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-08-23

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01383