{"id":"CVE-2025-22242","aliases":["GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv","PYSEC-2026-1896"],"title":"Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation","summary":"Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation","severity":"medium","cvss":5.6,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","vendor":"salt","product":"salt","ecosystem":"pip","affected":["salt >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4","salt >= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12"],"patched":["salt 3007.4","salt 3006.12"],"published":"2025-06-13","updated":"2026-07-07","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv","references":[{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242"},{"url":"https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e39116fb87bf4db9bcb9aade8258c66df87d41fe"},{"url":"https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html"},{"url":"https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html"},{"url":"https://github.com/saltstack/salt"}],"tags":["osv","pip"],"epss":0.00139,"epssPercentile":0.02684,"ingestedAt":"2026-07-08T18:25:47.793Z","slug":"CVE-2025-22242","body":"## Overview\n\nWorker 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.\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `salt >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4`\n- `salt >= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to a patched release:\n\n- `salt 3007.4`\n- `salt 3006.12`","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":31,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":30.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}