5.6Medium

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

VMware SALT Published: (1 year ago)

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.

Weakness (CWE): CWE-400

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

VendorProductVersions
VMware SALT 3006.x – < 3006.12, 3007.x – < 3007.4

References and patches