Critical severity · published Aug 23, 2017
CVE-2017-12791
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…
9.8
CVSS
4.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.7% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SA
Salt · Saltstack
through 2016.11.6; 2017.7.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12791
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12791
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100384
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006
Patch
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html
Patch
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944
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