CRITICAL9.6
PYSEC-2026-529
Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in file receiving method
Quick fix
PYSEC-2026-529 — salt: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
pip install --upgrade 'salt>=3006.12'Details
Directory traversal vulnerability in recv_file method allows arbitrary files to be written to the master cache directory.
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Affected packages
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38824[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/c4ad23f0f3132d8d8a88f19fa537dc42cf21b215[WEB]
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html[WEB]
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html[WEB]
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt[PACKAGE]
- https://pypi.org/project/salt[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8pcp-r83j-fc92[ADVISORY]