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PYSEC-2017-35

Quick fix

PYSEC-2017-35 — salt: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'salt>=2016.11.7'

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.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

PyPI/salt

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2016.11.7

Fixpip install --upgrade 'salt>=2016.11.7'

References

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944[WEB]
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html[WEB]
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006[REPORT]
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399[WEB]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100384[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw[ADVISORY]