CVE-2024-38824: SaltStack Salt

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in recv_file method allows arbitrary files to be written to the master cache directory.

Affected products

• SaltStack Salt: from 3006.0, before 3006.12 (fixed in 3006.12); from 3007.0, before 3007.4 (fixed in 3007.4)

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