CVE-2024-38825 | CVE-2024-38825 Salt Advisory

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.

Published: 2025-06-13 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Deferred，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-38825 is rated Low Risk (31.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.05%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-38825

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-03-30 0.03% 0.05% +0.03%
2 2025-06-13 — 0.03% —

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-38825

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.4 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 3.1 2.7 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-38825

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2024-38825

GHSA-4j59-vv55-q6h3 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: pip — Salt's salt.auth.pki module does not properly authenticate callers

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-38825

vendor priority summary link
alpine medium CVE-2024-38825: 1 source package rows (salt); 8 state rows across 2 repos (3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 0, open 8. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-38825
suse medium — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-38825/
ubuntu medium CVE-2024-38825 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (salt), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 4, needs-triage 3, needed 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-38825

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-38825

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2024-38825

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