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# Salt 2016.3.8 Release Notes

Version 2016.3.8 is a bugfix release for 2016.3.0.

## 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