CVE-2025-22238 – salt

Package

Manager: pip
Name: salt
Vulnerable Version: >=3006.0rc1 <3006.12 || >=3007.0rc1 <3007.4

Severity

Level: Medium

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.00191 pctl0.41169

Details

Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation Directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation. The master's default cache is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack. Which could be leveraged to write or overwrite 'cache' files outside of the cache directory.

Metadata

Created: 2025-06-13T09:30:33Z
Modified: 2025-06-13T21:20:12Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/06/GHSA-r546-h3ff-q585/GHSA-r546-h3ff-q585.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-22"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-r546-h3ff-q585
Finding: F063
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