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Vulnerability details: VCID-t99c-dqd5-ukfk
Vulnerability ID VCID-t99c-dqd5-ukfk
Aliases CVE-2024-38824
GHSA-8pcp-r83j-fc92
Summary Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in file receiving method Directory traversal vulnerability in recv_file method allows arbitrary files to be written to the master cache directory.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 9.0
Risk 4.5
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 0.00378 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-38824
cvssv3.1 9.6 https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
generic_textual CRITICAL https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
ssvc Track https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
cvssv3.1 9.6 https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
generic_textual CRITICAL https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
ssvc Track https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
cvssv3.1 9.6 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 9.6 https://github.com/saltstack/salt
generic_textual CRITICAL https://github.com/saltstack/salt
cvssv3.1 9.6 https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/c4ad23f0f3132d8d8a88f19fa537dc42cf21b215
generic_textual CRITICAL https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/c4ad23f0f3132d8d8a88f19fa537dc42cf21b215
cvssv3.1 9.6 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38824
generic_textual CRITICAL https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38824
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-38824
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/saltstack/salt
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/c4ad23f0f3132d8d8a88f19fa537dc42cf21b215
CVE-2024-38824 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38824
GHSA-8pcp-r83j-fc92 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8pcp-r83j-fc92
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-14T03:56:04Z/ Found at https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-14T03:56:04Z/ Found at https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/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:H/I:H/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:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/c4ad23f0f3132d8d8a88f19fa537dc42cf21b215
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38824
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.59704
EPSS Score 0.00378
Published At June 5, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T16:24:12.651607+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/pypi/salt/CVE-2024-38824.yml 38.6.0