CVE-2017-12791
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · Path traversal
9.8CVSS CRITICAL
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006Patch
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.htmlPatch
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.htmlPatch
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100384Advisory