{"action":"Upgrade salt to 2016.11.7 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"2016.11.7","introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2017.7.1","introduced":"2017.7"}],"component":"salt","cve_ids":["CVE-2017-12791"],"ecosystem":"PyPI","epss":0.04667,"exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["2016.11.7","2017.7.1"],"ghsa_id":"GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw","id":"tcs_01M5KG785ZS31GKDRBZ3N75K1X","modified_at":"2026-07-09T16:56:24.190827719Z","published_at":"2017-08-23T14:29:00Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2017-35","https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944","https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.1.html","https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2016.11/topics/releases/2016.11.7.html","https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006","https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399","http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100384","https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw"],"severity":{"label":"critical","score":9.8},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"PYSEC-2017-35","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2017-35"},{"source":"nvd","source_id":"CVE-2017-12791","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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 v"}