CVE-2025-22237: Salt's on demand pillar functionality vulnerable to arbitrary command injections

June 13, 2025

An attacker with access to a minion key can exploit the ‘on demand’ pillar functionality with a specially crafted git url which could cause and arbitrary command to be run on the master with the same privileges as the master process.

References

docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
github.com/advisories/GHSA-fcr4-h6c4-rvvp
github.com/saltstack/salt
github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/9445f496fed61b15dc4364818007e5b765b0746f
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22237

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