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PYSEC-2017-151

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2017-08-23 14:29 - Updated: 2026-05-13 00:24

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.

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


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

Impacted products

Name	purl
salt	pkg:pypi/salt

Aliases

CVE-2017-12791

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  "id": "PYSEC-2017-151",
  "modified": "2026-05-13T00:24:29.033Z",
  "published": "2017-08-23T14:29:00.283Z",
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CVE-2017-12791 (GCVE-0-2017-12791)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-23 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 18:51

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

6 references

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https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100384	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006	x_refsource_MISC
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/relea…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/rele…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public ?

2017-08-15 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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PYSEC-2017-151

CVE-2017-12791 (GCVE-0-2017-12791)

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