PYSEC-2017-36

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    PYSEC-2017-36

    Published: 24 Oct 2017Last Modified: 10 Jun 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/80d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6d, https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html, https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html, https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500748, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6gj-pg62-x8j6

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: salt

    Purl: pkg:pypi/salt

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -80d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6d

    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