Directory Traversal Affecting salt package, versions <2016.11.8+dfsg1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.75% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-SALT-292614
  • published 24 Oct 2017
  • disclosed 24 Oct 2017

How 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 2016.3.8, 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.