ghsa-4j59-vv55-q6h3
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-06-13 09:30
Modified
2025-06-13 21:15
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "salt"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "3006.0rc1"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3006.12"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "salt"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "3007.0rc1"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3007.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-38825"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-287"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-06-13T21:15:54Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-06-13T07:15:20Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-4j59-vv55-q6h3",
  "modified": "2025-06-13T21:15:54Z",
  "published": "2025-06-13T09:30:33Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38825"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5ff18fd0ececdfd083ddce693c3ccef30e44f155"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/d7cb64e44db5f82fd615373f5dca2eb1fb29bbab"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/saltstack/salt"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Salt\u0027s salt.auth.pki module does not properly authenticate callers"
}


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