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CVE-2025-22242: CVE-2025-22242 salt advisory

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

Worker process denial of service through file read operation. .A vulnerability exists in the Master's “pub_ret” method which is exposed to all minions. The un-sanitized input value “jid” is used to construct a path which is then opened for reading. An attacker could exploit this vulnerabilities by attempting to read from a filename that will not return any data, e.g. by targeting a pipe node on the proc file system.

Affected products

• VMware SALT: from 3006.x before 3006.12; from 3007.x before 3007.4 — fixed in 3006.12, 3007.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: VMware SALT 3006.12, 3007.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
• https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html

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