CVE-2024-38824
Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in file receiving method
9.6
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.38%
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in recv_file method allows arbitrary files to be written to the master cache directory.
How to fix CVE-2024-38824
To remediate CVE-2024-38824, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- PyPI/salt—upgrade to 3007.4 or later
Is CVE-2024-38824 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |