CVE-2025-22239: Salt vulnerable to arbitrary event injection

June 13, 2025

Arbitrary event injection on Salt Master. The master’s “_minion_event” method can be used by and authorized minion to send arbitrary events onto the master’s event bus.

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-c46w-gr7f-jm2p
github.com/saltstack/salt
github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/41d834bf800d86fc496e4fac2d3875fc2aca7c62
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22239

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