{"cve":"CVE-2024-38825","nvd":{"published":"2025-06-13T07:15:20.717","modified":"2026-06-17T07:41:07.050","status":"Deferred","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","score":6.4},"cwes":["CWE-287"],"references":["https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html","https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:02:23.998251710+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-38825","score":0.00154,"percentile":0.04463,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-4j59-vv55-q6h3","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-4j59-vv55-q6h3","summary":"Salt's salt.auth.pki module does not properly authenticate callers","modified":"2026-07-07T17:56:25.465719895Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"salt","purl":"pkg:pypi/salt","ranges":[">=3006.0rc1 <3006.12"],"fixed":["3006.12"]},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"salt","purl":"pkg:pypi/salt","ranges":[">=3007.0rc1 <3007.4"],"fixed":["3007.4"]}]},{"id":"PYSEC-2026-1893","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2026-1893","summary":"Salt's salt.auth.pki module does not properly authenticate callers","modified":"2026-07-07T17:47:49.494192344Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"salt","purl":"pkg:pypi/salt","ranges":[">=3006.0rc1 <3006.12",">=3007.0rc1 <3007.4"],"fixed":["3006.12","3007.4"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}