CVE-2017-12791

9.8 criticalEPSS 4.7%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2017-08-23
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

saltstack:salt

Packages (OSV)

Advisory	Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw	PyPI	salt	<2016.11.7	2016.11.7
GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw	PyPI	salt	>=2017.7.0 <2017.7.1	2017.7.1
PYSEC-2017-35	PyPI	salt	<2016.11.7 >=2017.7 <2017.7.1	2016.11.7, 2017.7.1

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

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