CVE-2017-14695

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-10-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

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.

Affected products

VMware SALT: through 2016.3.7; 2016.11, 2016.11.0, 2016.11.1, 2016.11.1-rc1, 2016.11.1-rc2, 2016.11.2 (+8)

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
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/80d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6d
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

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