Critical
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-14695
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2017-14695
Complete source record
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