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critical 9.8

CVE-2017-14695 json

SaltStack Salt Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation

published 9y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-j6gj-pg62-x8j6 , PYSEC-2017-36 , EUVD-2017-0120

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi salt 2016.3.8, 2016.11.8, 2017.7.2
  • salt Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • salt Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14695

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • icu4j Manager Server 3.1 55.1-1.3.1
  • smdba Manager Server 3.1 1.6.2-0.2.9.1
  • hadoop Manager Server 3.1 0.18.1-1.3.1
  • lucene Manager Server 3.1 2.4.1-1.3.1
  • tagsoup Manager Server 3.1 1.2.1-1.3.1
  • nekohtml Manager Server 3.1 1.9.21-1.3.1
  • spacecmd Manager Server 3.1 2.7.8.13-2.26.1
  • spacewalk Manager Server 3.1 2.7.0.6-2.6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:3811-1SUSE-SU-2018:1757-1SUSE-SU-2017:3381-1SUSE-SU-2017:3380-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-14695 updated cvss 8.0

salt: Directory traversal in minion id validation

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 salt Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 salt, salt-minion Red Hat Storage Console 2 salt
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi salt
<2016.3.8
>=2016.11.0, <2016.11.8
>=2017.7.0, <2017.7.2
>=2016.11, <2016.11.8
>=2017.7, <2017.7.2
2016.3.8
2016.11.8
2017.7.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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