CVE-2025-22236 salt advisory

published 2025-06-13 16 mo ago modified 2026-07-07 4 mo ago also GHSA-jh7c-xh74-h76f , PYSEC-2026-1899 , EUVD-2025-18254

cvss: 8.1; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 6%
public exploits: 0; none known

Minion event bus authorization bypass. An attacker with access to a minion key can craft a message which may be able to execute a job on other minions (>= 3007.0).

Patch / fix

fixed in 2 distros 2

pypi salt 3006.12, 3007.4
VMware SALT 3006.12, 3007.4

suse opensuse

salt SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.2 +3 more 3006.0-150300.53.94.1
salt Linux Micro 6.1 3006.0-slfo.1.1_4.1
salt Linux Micro 6.0 3006.0-13.1
salt SLE Module for Systems Management 15 SP7 3006.0-150700.14.5.2
salt SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS, SLE Module for Transactional Server 15 SP6 +6 more 3006.0-150500.4.55.1
salt-test openSUSE Leap 15.6 3006.0-150500.4.55.1
salt SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 3006.0-150400.8.80.1
venv-salt-minion Manager Client Tools for RHEL, Liberty and Clones 9-CLIENT-TOOLS, EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Update 3006.0-1.59.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:02534-1 SUSE-SU-2025:20487-1 SUSE-SU-2025:20504-1 SUSE-SU-2025:02502-1 SUSE-SU-2025:02501-1 SUSE-SU-2025:02500-1

salt openSUSE Tumbleweed 3006.0-41.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15295-1

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-2025-22236 updated 2026-06-25 cvss 8.1

salt: Authorization bypass in salt project

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: 16 mo ago (2025-06-13)

Exploit prediction

0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
OSV	3.1	8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
GitHub	3.1	8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
pypi	salt	>=3007.0, <3007.4 >=3006.0, <3006.12	3007.4 3006.12

Affected products

VMware SALT

Classification

Weakness

CWE-287 Improper Authentication

References

docs.saltproject.io /en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
web
docs.saltproject.io /en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
web
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22236
advisory
github.com /saltstack/salt
package
pypi.org /project/salt
package
github.com /advisories/GHSA-jh7c-xh74-h76f
advisory

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary