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SaltStack Salt Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 22, 2024

Package

pip salt (pip)

Affected versions

< 2016.11.7
>= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.1

Patched versions

2016.11.7
2017.7.1

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

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 23, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Apr 22, 2024
Last updated Apr 22, 2024

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-12791

GHSA ID

GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw

Source code

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