CVE-2017-12791

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

VMware SALT: through 2016.11.6; 2017.7.0

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
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

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