---
id: CVE-2025-22236
aliases:
  - GHSA-jh7c-xh74-h76f
  - PYSEC-2026-1899
title: Salt has minion event bus authorization bypass vulnerability
summary: Salt has minion event bus authorization bypass vulnerability
severity: high
cvss: 8.1
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L'
vendor: salt
product: salt
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - 'salt >= 3007.0, < 3007.4'
  - 'salt >= 3006.0, < 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-jh7c-xh74-h76f'
references:
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22236'
  - 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: 0.0017
epssPercentile: 0.06781
ingestedAt: '2026-07-08T18:25:50.785Z'
---

## Overview

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).

## Affected packages

- `salt >= 3007.0, < 3007.4`
- `salt >= 3006.0, < 3006.12`

## Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

- `salt 3007.4`
- `salt 3006.12`