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CVE-2025-22242

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CVSS Score

V3.1
0.0
/10
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Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

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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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

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EU Vulnerability Database

Monitored by ENISA for EU cybersecurity

EU Coordination

Not EU Coordinated

Exploitation Status

No Known Exploitation

EUVD ID

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ENISA Analysis

Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation

Affected Products (ENISA)

vmware
salt

ENISA Scoring

CVSS Score (3.1)

5.6
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score

0.020
probability

ENISA References

https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e39116fb87bf4db9bcb9aade8258c66df87d41fe

Data provided by ENISA EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated: June 13, 2025

GitHub Security Advisories

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Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation

GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv

Advisory Details

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 Packages

PyPI salt
ECOSYSTEM: ≥3007.0rc1 <3007.4
PyPI salt
ECOSYSTEM: ≥3006.0rc1 <3006.12

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

5.0

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242
WEB https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e39116fb87bf4db9bcb9aade8258c66df87d41fe
WEB https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
WEB https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
PACKAGE https://github.com/saltstack/salt

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: June 13, 2025, Modified: June 13, 2025

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Last Modified: Unknown
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