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Fencer Vulns
low 3.7

CVE-2022-22935 json

SaltStack Salt Improper Authentication via Man in the Middle Attack

published 2022-03-29 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-cvcc-5x92-gmhc , PYSEC-2022-172 , EUVD-2022-0271

cvss
3.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. A minion authentication denial of service can cause a MiTM attacker to force a minion process to stop by impersonating a master.

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 SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP1-LTSS, SLES 15 SP1-BCL +3 more 3002.2-150100.57.1
  • salt SLE Module for Advanced Systems Management 12, Manager Client Tools 12 3000-58.1

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-2022-22935

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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-2022-22935 updated cvss 3.7

salt: a minion authentication denial of service

  • 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
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CNA 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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

References

Sources

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