Directory Traversal Affecting salt package, versions <2016.11.8+dfsg1-1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.54% (78th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-SALT-292602
- published 23 Aug 2017
- disclosed 23 Aug 2017
Introduced: 23 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-12791 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10 salt to version 2016.11.8+dfsg1-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt package and not the salt package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.
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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12791
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944
- 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100384
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-12791