CVE-2017-12791: Path Traversal
First published: Wed Aug 16 2017(Updated: )
A flaw in minion id validation was found which could allow certain minions to authenticate to a master despite not having the correct credentials. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker must create a salt-minion with an ID containing characters that will cause a directory traversal. External References: <a href="https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html">https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html</a>
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| SaltStack Salt | <=2016.11.6 | |
| SaltStack Salt | =2017.7.0 | |
| debian/salt | <=2016.11.5+ds-1<=2014.1.13+ds-1 | 2016.11.8+dfsg1-1 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u1 |
| redhat/salt | <2016.3.7 | 2016.3.7 |
| redhat/salt | <2016.11.7 | 2016.11.7 |
| redhat/salt | <2017.7.1 | 2017.7.1 |
| pip/salt | >=2017.7.0<2017.7.1 | 2017.7.1 |
| pip/salt | <2016.11.7 | 2016.11.7 |
| debian/salt |
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Reference Links
- 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://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2017-12791
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12791
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12791
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/6366e05d0d70bd709cc4233c3faf32a759d0173a
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14695
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14696
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1482007
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1482008
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944/commits/63823f8c3ed02e7809fc8e61972d289bf233a9ed
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12791
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw (Advisory)
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-12791
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2017-35.yaml
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