CVE-2024-38825: VMware Salt

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 access to the corresponding private key for the authentication attempt to be accepted.

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.