Salt's salt.auth.pki module does not properly authenticate callers
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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
20 explicit affected versions
20 explicit affected versions
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5ff18fd0ececdfd083ddce693c3ccef30e44f155
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/d7cb64e44db5f82fd615373f5dca2eb1fb29bbab
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38825
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4j59-vv55-q6h3
- https://pypi.org/project/salt