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CVE-2025-22242: Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation

June 13, 2025

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.

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-989c-m532-p2hv
  • github.com/saltstack/salt
  • github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e39116fb87bf4db9bcb9aade8258c66df87d41fe
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 3007.0rc1 before 3007.4, all versions starting from 3006.0rc1 before 3006.12

Fixed versions

  • 3007.4
  • 3006.12

Solution

Upgrade to versions 3006.12, 3007.4 or above.

Impact 5.6 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Source file

pypi/salt/CVE-2025-22242.yml

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