CVE-2017-12791

moderate-risk
Published 2017-08-23

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.93% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
9
CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (2)

Affected Vendors

Saltstack

References (12)

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
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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moderate-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 3/34 · Minimal
Exposure 7/34 · Low