Bug 2372619 (CVE-2024-38825)

Summary: CVE-2024-38825 salt: Authentication bypass in saltstack
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An authentication bypass issue has been discovered in the salt project. In a public key infrastructure authentication mode of operation an attacker may be able to authenticate against a specific certificate without access to the corresponding private key.
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Bug Depends On: 2372744, 2372749, 2372755, 2372757    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-13 07:01:06 UTC 
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.