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CVE-2017-12791

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.

Published

2017-08-23T14:29:00.283

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 9.8 (CRITICAL)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-22

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	saltstack	salt	≤ 2016.11.6	Yes
Application	saltstack	salt	2017.7.0	Yes

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100384 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100384 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)