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CVE-2017-12791 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence

Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2017-12791

CVE-2017-12791

CRITICAL9.8

Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation in SaltStack Salt before 2016

Published Aug 23, 2017

Modified 1 years ago

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100384

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/saltstack/salt/pull/42944

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12791

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.0

9.8

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

HighC:H

Integrity

HighI:H

Availability

HighA:H

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

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedAug 23, 2017

ModifiedAug 5, 2024