---
title: "CVE-2024-38824: Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in file receiving method"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2024-38824/
description: "CVE-2024-38824 (salt (PyPI)): Directory traversal vulnerability in recvfile method allows arbitrary files to be written to the master cache directory."
type: vulnerability-record
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2025-06-13
date_modified: 2026-02-26
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
cve: "CVE-2024-38824"
kev: false
cvss: 9.6
epss: 0.01035
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
---

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

**Signal:** Critical, preconditions apply. Severe if exploited, but exploitation needs conditions that may not apply to you. (Computed from CISA KEV, EPSS and CVSS; not an editorial verdict.)

## Should you act?

- No confirmed exploitation. It is not in CISA’s KEV catalog and CISA’s SSVC assessment records no known exploitation. That can change quickly after a public write-up; re-check if you are affected.
- EPSS 1.0% , percentile 64: FIRST’s model estimates a 1.0% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (moderate). EPSS is a probability, not a verdict.
- Needs an account (low (any account)). Exposure depends on who can log in.
- Only applies if your dependency tree includes salt (PyPI) >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4, fixed in 3007.4 ; salt (PyPI) >= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12, fixed in 3006.12 . Check your lockfile, including transitive dependencies.

## What it is

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

## Affected packages

- PyPI `salt` >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4 → fixed: 3007.4
- PyPI `salt` >= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12 → fixed: 3006.12

## Affected products (CVE record)

- VMware SALT: 3006.x < 3006.12, 3007.x < 3007.4

## Severity

- vmware CVSS 3.1: 9.6 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N`
- GitHub CVSS 3.1: 9.6 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N`

## Exploitation

- CISA KEV: not listed (no confirmed in-the-wild exploitation known to CISA).
- CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation none , automatable no , technical impact total .
- FIRST EPSS (model of 2026-10-21): 1.03% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 64.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory GHSA-8pcp-r83j-fc92](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8pcp-r83j-fc92)
- [CVE.org record CVE-2024-38824](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38824)
- [NVD entry CVE-2024-38824](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38824)
- [docs.saltproject.io](https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html)
- [docs.saltproject.io](https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html)
- [github.com](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/c4ad23f0f3132d8d8a88f19fa537dc42cf21b215)

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