CVE-2024-38824: Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in file receiving method

June 13, 2025

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

References

docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
github.com/advisories/GHSA-8pcp-r83j-fc92
github.com/saltstack/salt
github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/c4ad23f0f3132d8d8a88f19fa537dc42cf21b215
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38824

Code Behaviors & Features

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