CVE-2024-38825
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BaseFortify

Publication date: 2025-06-13

Last updated on: 2025-06-16

Assigner: VMware

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.
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Published
2025-06-13
Last Modified
2025-06-16
Generated
2026-05-07
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2025-06-13
EPSS Evaluated
2026-05-05
NVD
CVE-2024-38825
EUVD
EUVD-2024-54683
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Currently, no data is known.
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CWE ID Description
CWE-287 When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?

The vulnerability is in the salt.auth.pki module, which does not properly authenticate callers. It treats the 'password' field as a public certificate and validates it against a CA certificate. However, this is not true PKI authentication because the caller does not need to have the corresponding private key for the authentication to succeed, allowing potentially unauthorized access.


How can this vulnerability impact me? :

This vulnerability can allow unauthorized users to authenticate successfully without possessing the private key, potentially leading to unauthorized access and actions within the affected system. This can compromise the confidentiality and integrity of the system.


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