GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw

SaltStack Salt Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2017-12791

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	salt	< 2016.11.7	2016.11.7
PyPI	salt	>= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.1	2017.7.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12791 advisory
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944 web
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006 web
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html web
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html web
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-151.yaml web
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-35.yaml web
https://github.com/saltstack/salt package