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CVE-2017-12791
Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation in SaltStack Salt before 2016.11.7 and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.1 allows remote…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 4.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 13 days later
· 13 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.7% · top 8.1% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
References6
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 100384 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-0119 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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