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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2022-22936 json

SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay

published 2022-03-29 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-5r3f-3m3j-wcj2 , PYSEC-2022-173 , EUVD-2022-0272

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 57%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. Job publishes and file server replies are susceptible to replay attacks, which can result in an attacker replaying job publishes causing minions to run old jobs. File server replies can also be re-played. A sufficient craft attacker could gain root access on minion under certain scenarios.

Patch / fix

  • pypi salt 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1
  • saltstack salt 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1
  • venv-salt-minion Manager Client Tools 12 3004-3.8.1
  • venv-salt-minion Manager Client Tools 15 3004-150000.3.8.1
  • salt SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP2-LTSS, SLES 15 SP2-BCL +8 more 3002.2-150200.64.1
  • salt SLE Module for Transactional Server 15 SP3, SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP3, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 +3 more 3002.2-150300.53.16.1
  • salt SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP1-LTSS, SLES 15 SP1-BCL +3 more 3002.2-150100.63.1
  • salt SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS +1 more 3002.2-150000.8.41.32.1
  • salt SLE Module for Advanced Systems Management 12, Manager Client Tools 12 3000-62.1
  • salt SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP1-LTSS, SLES 15 SP1-BCL +3 more 3002.2-150100.57.1

suse advisories SUSE-FU-2022:2135-1SUSE-FU-2022:2042-1SUSE-RU-2022:1392-1SUSE-RU-2022:1391-1SUSE-RU-2022:1389-1SUSE-RU-2022:1385-1

  • salt openSUSE Leap 15.3 3002.2-150300.53.10.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2022:1059-1

  • salt Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 3004.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-22936

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-22936 updated cvss 8.8

salt: an attacker could gain root access on minion under certain scenarios

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.4 AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi salt
<3002.8
>=3003, <3003.4
>=3004, <3004.1
3002.8
3003.4
3004.1

Affected products

  • n/a SaltStack Salt

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-294 Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay

References

Sources

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