GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-8pcp-r83j-fc92 Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in file receiving method
CRITICAL
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-38824
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- salt
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
- Reviewed
- 2025-06-13
Affected packages
• PyPI salt: >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4 → fixed in 3007.4
• PyPI salt: >= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12 → fixed in 3006.12
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in recv_file method allows arbitrary files to be written to the master cache directory.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-38824 Directory traversal vulnerability in recv_file method allows arbitrary files to be written to the master cache directory. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38824 advisory
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/c4ad23f0f3132d8d8a88f19fa537dc42cf21b215 web
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html web
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html web
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt package