vulnerability
Arch Linux: Directory traversal (CVE-2017-12791)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Aug 23, 2017 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 23, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
Description
It has been discovered that maliciously crafted minion IDs can cause unwanted directory traversals on the salt-master. The flaw is within the minion id validation which could allow certain minions to authenticate to a master despite not having the correct credentials. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker must create a salt-minion with an ID containing characters that will cause a directory traversal.
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2017-12791
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-12791
- URL-http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100384
- URL-https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399
- URL-https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006
- URL-https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html
- URL-https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html
- URL-https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944
- URL-https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/salt-announce/3e5bNantdJk
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201708-17
- CWE-22
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