CVE-2017-12791Critical· 9.8▾ MidnightSaltStack Salt Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 53.9 · likelihood 0.8 · exploitation 0
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Jul 9.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
4.6%
4.6% → 4.7%
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.
salt < 2016.11.7salt >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.1Upgrade to a patched release:
salt 2016.11.7salt 2017.7.1Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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