GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw

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    GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw

    Published: 17 May 2022Last Modified: 9 Jul 2026

    Summary: SaltStack Salt Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12791, https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006, https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html, https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html, https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-151.yaml, https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-35.yaml, https://github.com/saltstack/salt

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: salt

    Purl: pkg:pypi/salt

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2016.11.7

    Affected versions

    0.10.0
    0.10.1
    0.10.2
    0.10.3
    0.10.4
    0.10.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High