| Name | CVE-2017-12791 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 872399 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| salt (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2014.1.13+ds-3+deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| salt | source | stretch | 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u1 | | | |
| salt | source | (unstable) | 2016.11.8+dfsg1-1 | | | 872399 |
Notes
[jessie] - salt <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/6366e05d0d70bd709cc4233c3faf32a759d0173a
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html