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CVE-2017-12791

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

Published Modified CWE 22
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA, Photon OS. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

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 packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0salt2017.7.2-1.ph1
pip::GitHub Security Advisory pipsalt2016.11.7, 2017.7.1
debian 8saltno fix listed
debian 9salt2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u1
Red Hatsalt, salt-minionno fix listed
ubuntu 14.04-ESMsalt0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMsalt2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm1
Show all 8 entries from 7 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0salt2017.7.2-1.ph1
pip::GitHub Security Advisory pipsalt2016.11.7, 2017.7.1
debian 8saltno fix listed
debian 9salt2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u1
Red Hatsaltno fix listed
Red Hatsalt-minionno fix listed
ubuntu 14.04-ESMsalt0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMsalt2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm1

References

All 14 references

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