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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)

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