Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation in SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-12791.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html
Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html
Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html
Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500748
Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html
Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/80d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6d
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0033
EPSS Percentile
56.0%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-22
Status
published
Products (13)
pypi/salt
0 - 2016.3.8PyPI
saltstack/salt
2016.11
saltstack/salt
2016.11.0
saltstack/salt
2016.11.1 (3 CPE variants)
saltstack/salt
2016.11.2
saltstack/salt
2016.11.3
saltstack/salt
2016.11.4
saltstack/salt
2016.11.5
saltstack/salt
2016.11.6
saltstack/salt
2016.11.7
... and 3 more
Published
Oct 24, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026