Security advisory

{
  "id": "752f5ff680158a886829f1a2380076f883e501a053e06fb30b529b6e37225f9f",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12791",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-12791",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-12791",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-12791",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-12791",
        "GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw",
        "PYSEC-2017-35"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/saltstack/salt",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "afc61ffe63770a731154f1380a91d566248a8fae"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "81695a9f3c9bfa9224a4b58426e872e823112926"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "81695a9f3c9bfa9224a4b58426e872e823112926"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2016.11.6"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:2017.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2017.7.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2017.7.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2017.7.0",
            "v2016.11.6",
            "v2017.7.0",
            "v2016.11.5",
            "v2016.9",
            "v2016.11",
            "v2016.11.3",
            "v2016.3",
            "v2016.11.4",
            "v2016.11.2",
            "v2016.11.1",
            "v2016.11.0",
            "v2016.11.0rc2",
            "v2016.11.0rc1",
            "v2015.8",
            "v2015.5",
            "v2015.2",
            "v2014.7",
            "v2014.1",
            "v0.17",
            "v0.16",
            "v0.15.0",
            "v0.14.0",
            "v0.13.0",
            "v0.12.0",
            "v0.11.0",
            "v0.10.5",
            "v0.10.4",
            "v0.10.3",
            "v0.10.2",
            "v0.10.1",
            "v0.10.0",
            "v0.9.9",
            "v0.9.3",
            "v0.9.2",
            "v0.9.1",
            "v0.9.0",
            "v0.8.9",
            "v0.8.7",
            "v0.8.0",
            "v0.7.0",
            "v0.6.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12791.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:09.743158033Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006",
        "https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html",
        "https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html",
        "https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-12791",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380099,
  "published_at": "2017-08-23T14:29:00.283+00:00"
}