CVE-2017-12791

critical
Published 2017-08-23 · Modified 2026-05-19
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12791.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIsalt>=2017.7.0,<2017.7.12017.7.1
python PyPIsalt<2016.11.72016.11.7
python PyPIsalt
python PyPIsalt>=2017.7,<2017.7.12016.11.7
PIPsalt>= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.12017.7.1
PIPsalt< 2016.11.72016.11.7

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
saltstacksalt{"endIncluding":"2016.11.6"}
saltstacksalt2017.7.0

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.