Improper Certificate Validation Affecting salt package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SALT-10350566
  • published16 Jun 2025
  • disclosed13 Jun 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jun 2025

NewCVE-2024-38825  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation due to improper authentication in the salt.auth.pki module. An attacker can gain unauthorized access by providing only a public certificate in the password field, which is accepted without requiring the corresponding private key.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1