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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
VLAI
Title
CVE-2024-38825 Salt Advisory
Summary
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-13 14:00 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
VMware SALT Affected: 3006.x , < 3006.12 (lts)
Affected: 3007.x , < 3007.4 (sts)
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Date Public
2025-06-12 07:33
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