CVE-2017-14695

high-risk

Published 2017-10-24

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.

Do I need to act?

0.33% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 9.8/10 Critical

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (15)

Salt

Affected Vendors

Saltstack

References (14)

Issue Tracking http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html

Issue Tracking http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html

Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500748

Issue Tracking https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html

Issue Tracking https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html

Issue Tracking https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html

Issue Tracking https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/80d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6...

Issue Tracking http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html

Issue Tracking http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html

Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500748

Issue Tracking https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html

Issue Tracking https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html

Issue Tracking https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html

Issue Tracking https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/80d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6...

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high-risk

Severity 32/34 · Critical

Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal

Exposure 18/34 · Moderate