medium5.6
CVE-2025-22242
Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation
Impact
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
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| pip | salt | >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4 | 3007.4 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e39116fb87bf4db9bcb9aade8258c66df87d41fe