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Fencer Vulns
high 7.7

CVE-2024-22232 json

Specially crafted url can be created which leads to a directory traversal in the salt file server

published 2024-06-27 2 y ago modified 2026-07-07 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-1887 , GHSA-2qw3-2wv6-p64x , PYSEC-2026-1891

cvss
7.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A specially crafted url can be created which leads to a directory traversal in the salt file server. A malicious user can read an arbitrary file from a Salt master’s filesystem.

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 +2 more 3006.6-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-22232

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

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-22232 updated cvss 7.7

salt: Directory traversal in the salt file server

  • 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
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
OSV 3.1 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/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

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.