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Vulnerability details: VCID-qr6n-rx38-6fd2
Vulnerability ID VCID-qr6n-rx38-6fd2
Aliases CVE-2024-22231
GHSA-q27c-j6j9-53w3
Summary Directory creation by malicious user in saltstack Syndic cache directory creation is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack in salt project which can lead a malicious attacker to create an arbitrary directory on a Salt master.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
epss 0.0058 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-22231
cvssv3.1 5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1_qr MODERATE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q27c-j6j9-53w3
cvssv3.1 5.0 https://github.com/saltstack/salt
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/saltstack/salt
cvssv3.1 5.0 https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e0cdb80b55123f4a024759ffcf2b3f0e0788e7ab
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e0cdb80b55123f4a024759ffcf2b3f0e0788e7ab
cvssv3.1 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22231
generic_textual MODERATE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22231
cvssv3.1 5.0 https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2024-01-31-advisory
generic_textual MODERATE https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2024-01-31-advisory
cvssv3.1 5 https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2024-01-31-advisory/
ssvc Track https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2024-01-31-advisory/
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-22231
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/saltstack/salt
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e0cdb80b55123f4a024759ffcf2b3f0e0788e7ab
https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2024-01-31-advisory
2024-01-31-advisory https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2024-01-31-advisory/
CVE-2024-22231 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22231
GHSA-q27c-j6j9-53w3 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q27c-j6j9-53w3
GLSA-202412-09 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202412-09
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/saltstack/salt
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e0cdb80b55123f4a024759ffcf2b3f0e0788e7ab
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22231
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N Found at https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2024-01-31-advisory
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N Found at https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2024-01-31-advisory/
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-07-08T14:45:17Z/ Found at https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2024-01-31-advisory/
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.69302
EPSS Score 0.0058
Published At June 5, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T16:21:59.941706+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/pypi/salt/CVE-2024-22231.yml 38.6.0