CVE-2024-38825 Affecting salt package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2204-SALT-10363353
  • published4 Apr 2026
  • disclosed13 Jun 2025

Introduced: 13 Jun 2025

CVE-2024-38825  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:22.04 salt.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt package and not the salt package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:22.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Base Scores

version 3.1