CVE-2017-14695

critical

Description

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

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https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/80d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6d

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://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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-10-24

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00473