CVE-2024-22231 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2024-06-27

Score: 5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

VMware

Salt Project

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 3005.5, 3006.6

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-2131	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.
Github GHSA	GHSA-q27c-j6j9-53w3	Directory creation by malicious user in saltstack

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0058.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2024-01-31-advisory/

History

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-22
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

No data.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2024-06-27T06:51:44.428Z

Updated: 2024-10-30T18:36:23.980Z

Reserved: 2024-01-08T16:40:16.140Z

Link: CVE-2024-22231

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T22:43:33.678Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-06-27T07:15:52.623

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2024-22231

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-22

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