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GHSA-4J59-VV55-Q6H3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-06-13 09:30 – Updated: 2025-06-13 21:15

Summary

Salt's salt.auth.pki module does not properly authenticate callers

Details

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.

Severity

6.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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CVE-2024-38825 (GCVE-0-2024-38825)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-13 06:46 – Updated: 2025-06-13 14:01

Title

CVE-2024-38825 Salt Advisory

Summary

Severity

6.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Assigner

vmware

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releas…
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releas…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
VMware	SALT	Affected: 3006.x , < 3006.12 (lts) Affected: 3007.x , < 3007.4 (sts)

Date Public

2025-06-12 07:33

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GHSA-4J59-VV55-Q6H3

CVE-2024-38825 (GCVE-0-2024-38825)

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