CVSS 3.0
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2017-14695
Critical (9.8) in saltstack salt. EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in salt 2016.11.8, 2016.3.8, 2017.7.2.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- saltstack:salt
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-j6gj-pg62-x8j6 | PyPI | salt | <2016.3.8 | 2016.3.8 |
| GHSA-j6gj-pg62-x8j6 | PyPI | salt | >=2016.11.0 <2016.11.8 | 2016.11.8 |
| GHSA-j6gj-pg62-x8j6 | PyPI | salt | >=2017.7.0 <2017.7.2 | 2017.7.2 |
| PYSEC-2017-36 | PyPI | salt | <2016.3.8 >=2016.11 <2016.11.8 >=2017.7 <2017.7.2 | 2016.3.8, 2016.11.8, 2017.7.2 |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500748
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html