CRITICAL 9.8

PYSEC-2017-151

Details

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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Affected packages

PyPI / salt

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References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100384 [ADVISORY]
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399 [FIX]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006 [FIX]
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html [FIX]
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html [FIX]
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944 [FIX]