CVE-2025-22238Medium· 4.2▾ SunlitSalt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 23.1 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Jul 8.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.3%
0.3% → 0.3%
Directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation. The master's default cache is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack. Which could be leveraged to write or overwrite 'cache' files outside of the cache directory.
salt >= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12salt >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4Upgrade to a patched release:
salt 3006.12salt 3007.4Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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