Salt 2016.3.8 Release Notes¶

Security Fix¶

CVE-2017-14695 Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation in SaltStack. Allows remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID. Credit for discovering the security flaw goes to: Julian Brost (julian@0x4a42.net)

CVE-2017-14696 Remote Denial of Service with a specially crafted authentication request. Credit for discovering the security flaw goes to: Julian Brost (julian@0x4a42.net)

Changelog for v2016.3.7..v2016.3.8¶

Generated at: 2018-05-27 14:11:36 UTC

• 8cf08bd7be Update 2016.3.7 Release Notes

• 0425defe84 Do not allow IDs with null bytes in decoded payloads

• 31b38f50eb Don't allow path separators in minion ID