CVE-2017-14695

critical
Published 2017-10-24 · Modified 2024-04-22
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 2016.3.8, 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.

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-2017-14695.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/80d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6d

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500748

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIsalt<2016.3.82016.3.8
python PyPIsalt>=2016.11.0,<2016.11.82016.11.8
python PyPIsalt>=2017.7.0,<2017.7.22017.7.2
python PyPIsalt<80d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6d||>=2017.7,<2017.7.280d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6d

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
saltstacksalt{"endIncluding":"2016.3.7"}
saltstacksalt2016.11
saltstacksalt2016.11.0
saltstacksalt2016.11.1
saltstacksalt2016.11.2
saltstacksalt2016.11.3
saltstacksalt2016.11.4
saltstacksalt2016.11.5
saltstacksalt2016.11.6
saltstacksalt2016.11.7
saltstacksalt2017.7.0
saltstacksalt2017.7.1

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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