CVE-2017-12791

highpriority · track · 41EPSS 0.047 · 92 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

4.67% (92nd) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

7 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.09.8criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.09.8criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.09criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-22US

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
saltstack salt≤ 2016.11.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2017.7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI saltall versionsosvUSpkg:pypi/salt
PyPI salt< 2016.11.7osvUSpkg:pypi/salt
PyPI salt2017.7 → 2017.7.1osvUSpkg:pypi/salt
PyPI salt2017.7.0 → 2017.7.1osvUSpkg:pypi/salt

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgwSaltStack Salt Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
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.
PYSEC-2017-1512017-08-23vendor · osvUS
Withdrawn as duplicate of PYSEC-2017-35 Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation in SaltStack Salt before 2016.11.7 and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.1 allows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.
PYSEC-2017-352017-08-23vendor · osvUS
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.

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-08-23modified 2026-06-17

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references (15)

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