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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.3

CVE-2025-22240 json

CVE-2025-22240 salt advisory

published 2025-06-13 16 mo ago modified 2026-07-07 4 mo ago also GHSA-xh32-3m67-qjgf , PYSEC-2026-1903 , EUVD-2025-18250

cvss
6.3
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 5%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Arbitrary directory creation or file deletion. In the find_file method of the GitFS class, a path is created using os.path.join using unvalidated input from the “tgt_env” variable. This can be exploited by an attacker to delete any file on the Master's process has permissions to.

Patch / fix

  • pypi salt 3006.12, 3007.4
  • VMware SALT 3006.12, 3007.4
  • 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-2025:02534-1SUSE-SU-2025:20487-1SUSE-SU-2025:20504-1SUSE-SU-2025:02502-1SUSE-SU-2025:02501-1SUSE-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-2025-22240 updated cvss 6.3

salt: Path traversal in saltstack

  • 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

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi salt
>=3007.0rc1, <3007.4
>=3006.0rc1, <3006.12
3007.4
3006.12

Affected products

  • VMware SALT

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

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.