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CVE-2024-22231 json

Syndic cache directory creation is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack

published 2y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2024-2131 , GHSA-q27c-j6j9-53w3 , PYSEC-2026-1900

cvss
5.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Syndic cache directory creation is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack in salt project which can lead a malicious attacker to create an arbitrary directory on a Salt master.

Patch / fix

  • pypi salt 3005.5, 3006.6
  • VMware Salt Project 3005.5, 3006.6
  • venv-salt-minion Manager Client Tools for RHEL, Liberty and Clones 9-CLIENT-TOOLS, EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Update 3006.0-1.36.3
  • saltbundlepy EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Update 3.10.14-1.20.1
  • saltbundlepy-core EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Update 3.10.14-1.20.1
  • saltbundlepy-lxml EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Update 4.9.3-1.15.2
  • venv-salt-minion Manager Server Module 4.3, Manager Proxy Module 4.3, Manager Client Tools for SLE Micro 5 +1 more 3006.0-150000.3.54.3
  • venv-salt-minion Manager Client Tools 12 3006.0-3.52.3
  • release-notes-susemanager Manager Server 4.3 4.3.11-150400.3.100.1
  • release-notes-susemanager-proxy Manager Proxy 4.3 4.3.11-150400.3.79.1

suse advisories SUSE-EL-9-CLIENT-TOOLS-2024-1525SUSE-SU-2024:1525-1SUSE-SU-2024:1518-1SUSE-SU-2024:1517-1SUSE-SU-2024:0513-1SUSE-SU-2024:0510-1

  • salt Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +3 more 3006.6-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-22231

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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red hat product security vex CVE-2024-22231 updated cvss 5.0

salt: Directory traversal in Syndic cache directory creation

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2y ago

Exploit prediction

0.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
OSV 3.1 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi salt
<3005.5
>=3006.0, <3006.6
3005.5
3006.6

Affected products

  • VMware Salt Project

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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