CVE-2024-38825 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00037.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html

History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00035}`	epss `{'score': 0.00043}`

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-287
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000

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		https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
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'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2025-06-13T06:46:12.145Z

Updated: 2025-06-13T14:01:02.386Z

Reserved: 2024-06-19T22:32:06.583Z

Link: CVE-2024-38825

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-06-13T14:00:59.165Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-06-13T07:15:20.717

Modified: 2025-06-16T12:32:18.840

Link: CVE-2024-38825

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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