CVE-2024-38825

CVE-2024-38825 Salt Advisory

Published Jun 13, 2025 CVSS 3.1 · 6.4 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
The salt.auth.pki module does not properly authenticate callers. The "password" field contains a public certificate which is validated against a CA certificate by the module. This is not pki authentication, as the caller does not need access to the corresponding private key for the authentication attempt to be accepted.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-54683 Salt's salt.auth.pki module does not properly authenticate callers
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-4j59-vv55-q6h3 Salt's salt.auth.pki module does not properly authenticate callers
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00035}

epss

{'score': 0.00043}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-287
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The salt.auth.pki module does not properly authenticate callers. The "password" field contains a public certificate which is validated against a CA certificate by the module. This is not pki authentication, as the caller does not need access to the corresponding private key for the authentication attempt to be accepted.
Title CVE-2024-38825 Salt Advisory
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

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Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
vmware
Published
Updated
Jun 13, 2025, 2:01 PM
Reserved
Jun 19, 2024, 10:32 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
Jun 13, 2025, 7:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 7:41 AM