CVE-2017-14695
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.19% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 88.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-10-24 17:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 19:34Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-09-22
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6861ad152c660278ef632e49eb470fdd664f3ac35014fa8e0f3edf3d1c4d0017
05 Affected products
06 References
- docs.saltstack.comhttps://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2017:2824http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2017:2822http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500748
- docs.saltstack.comhttps://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html
- docs.saltstack.comhttps://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/80d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6d
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- salt Fixed in 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- salt Fixed in 2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.