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CVE-2017-14695
CRITICAL
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.
Published: Oct 24, 2017
Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CWE-22
CVSS Metrics
CVSSv3
Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products (15)
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| saltstack | salt | * |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11 |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.0 |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.1 |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.1 |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.1 |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.2 |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.3 |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.4 |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.5 |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.6 |
| saltstack | salt | 2016.11.7 |
| saltstack | salt | 2017.7.0 |
| saltstack | salt | 2017.7.0 |
| saltstack | salt | 2017.7.1 |
GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-j6gj-pg62-x8j6
SaltStack Salt Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation
pip
salt
< 2016.3.8
Fixed: 2016.3.8
pip
salt
>= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.8
Fixed: 2016.11.8
pip
salt
>= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.2
Fixed: 2017.7.2
References (14)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500748 Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/80d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6d Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500748 Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/80d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6d Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Risk Scores
CVSS Score
9.8 / 10
EPSS Score
2.59%
Top 16% most likely to be exploited
Threat Score
40 / 100
Data Sources
NVD
EPSS
GitHub