{"id":"CVE-2017-14695","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-14695","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T23:57:22.687Z","title":"Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation in SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID.","description":"Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation in SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID.  NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-12791.","published":"2017-10-24T17:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:06:37.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":["saltstack/salt"],"epss":{"score":0.0319,"percentile":0.88029,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.19%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500748","tags":["Issue Tracking","Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/80d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6d","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00073.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-10/msg00075.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500748","tags":["Issue Tracking","Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.11.8.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2016.3.8.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/80d90307b07b3703428ecbb7c8bb468e28a9ae6d","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14695","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}