What is CVE-2024-38825?

CVE-2024-38825 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Salt. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-06-13.

How severe is CVE-2024-38825?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Vmware Salt

CVE-2024-38825

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 acce…

EPSS: 0.001 (31.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Vmware Salt — versions 3006.x, 3007.x

References

docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-38825?: CVE-2024-38825 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Salt. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-06-13.
How severe is CVE-2024-38825?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.