CVE-2017-12791: SaltStack Salt

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• SaltStack Salt: up to and including 2016.11.6; version 2017.7.0 only

Published 2017-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.