CVE-2024-38822: VMware Salt

Low severity, CVSS 2.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple methods in the salt master skip minion token validation. Therefore a misbehaving minion can impersonate another minion.

Affected products

• VMware Salt: from 3006, before 3006.12 (fixed in 3006.12); from 3007, before 3007.4 (fixed in 3007.4)

Published 2025-06-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.