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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2017-12791 json

SaltStack Salt Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation

published 2017-08-23 9 y ago modified 2026-07-09 4 mo ago also GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw , PYSEC-2017-151 , PYSEC-2017-35 , EUVD-2017-0119

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.7%
EPSS 4.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi salt 2016.11.7, 2017.7.1
  • salt Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • salt Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12791

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • salt SLE Point of Sale 12 SP2, SLE Module for Advanced Systems Management 12, Manager Server 3.0 +4 more 2016.11.4-46.7.1
  • salt Manager Server 3.1, Manager Proxy 3.1 2016.11.4-4.3.1
  • salt SLES 11 SP4-CLIENT-TOOLS, SLES 11 SP3-CLIENT-TOOLS 2016.11.4-43.7.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:2676-1SUSE-SU-2017:2674-1SUSE-SU-2017:2666-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-12791 updated cvss 5.3

salt: Directory traversal vulnerability on salt-master via crafted minion IDs

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 salt Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 salt, salt-minion Red Hat Storage Console 2 salt
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi salt
<2016.11.7
>=2017.7.0, <2017.7.1
>=2017.7, <2017.7.1
2016.11.7
2017.7.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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