CVE-2025-22238: Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation

June 13, 2025

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.

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-r546-h3ff-q585
github.com/saltstack/salt
github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/4b30218edf1a979855ea191d72b30c89f4a5a582
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22238

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