CVE-2017-12791

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-05-17. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3

Also known asEUVD-2017-0119 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw (GitHub Security Advisories) · PYSEC-2017-35 (OSV.dev)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 4.7%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
46
EG Risk 46/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation4.7% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
4.7%
EPSS %ILE
91st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
4.7% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 23, 2017

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Oct 6, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat, github_pr.
Red Hat

1482006 – (CVE-2017-12791) CVE-2017-12791 salt: Directory traversal vulnerability on salt-master via crafted minion IDs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482006
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

#872399 - salt: CVE-2017-12791: Directory traversal vulnerability on salt-master via crafted minion IDs - Debian Bug report logs

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872399
Web page

CVE-2017-12791 - PSIRT.COM

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100384
GitHub pull request

[2016.11] Add clean_id function to salt.utils.verify.py

Fix merged in saltstack/salt PR #42944 on 2017-08-15 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/42944

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2017-12791(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntusalt-cloud (2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm1) @ xenial2026-11-12ubuntu
pipsalt @ 2016.11.7 (fixes < 2016.11.7)—ghsa
pipsalt @ 2017.7.1 (fixes >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.1)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
PyPI(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
salt0.10.0 ... 2017.7.0 (132 versions)
  • every version up to 2016.11.7: fixed in 2016.11.7
  • 2017.7.0 up to 2017.7.1: fixed in 2017.7.1
  • 2017.7 up to 2017.7.1: fixed in 2017.7.1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

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Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 15× in last 7d / 58× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

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  1. 2026-11-12 16:32 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-12 16:32 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-12 16:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-12 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
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  7. 2026-11-11 16:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-11-10 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
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  10. 2026-11-10 16:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-11-09 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
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  13. 2026-11-09 16:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  14. 2026-11-08 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
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  16. 2026-11-08 16:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  17. 2026-11-07 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
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  19. 2026-11-07 16:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-11-06 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
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  22. 2026-11-06 16:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-11-05 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
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  25. 2026-11-05 16:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-11-04 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
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  3. 2026-11-04 15:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-03 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
  5. 2026-11-03 15:56 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  6. 2026-11-03 15:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-11-02 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
  8. 2026-11-02 15:54 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  9. 2026-11-02 15:54 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-11-02 15:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-11-02 14:25 UTCOSV refresh
  12. 2026-11-01 15:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-11-01 08:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  20. 2026-10-30 15:48 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-29 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
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  23. 2026-10-29 15:45 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
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  26. 2026-10-28 15:38 UTCVendor advisory
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2017-12791?
CVE-2017-12791 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 23, 2017. 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.
When was CVE-2017-12791 made public?
CVE-2017-12791 was made public on August 15, 2017: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, MITRE Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 23, 2017. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2017-12791 actively exploited?
CVE-2017-12791 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (91st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2017-12791?
CVE-2017-12791 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2017-12791?
A fix for CVE-2017-12791 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2017-12791 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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