CVE-2017-12791
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100384
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12791.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12791
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-151.yaml
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-35.yaml
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw
CWEs
CWE-22
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.