CVE-2025-22242

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.6
Exploit probability3. percentile0.1%
ProductSalt
PublishedJun 13, 2025
First seenJun 13, 2025

How to fix

Update
  • salt3007.4, 3006.12 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
saltPyPI3007.0rc1 ≤ v < 3007.4, 3006.0rc1 ≤ v < 3006.123007.4, 3006.12

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