---
id: CVE-2025-22239
aliases:
  - GHSA-c46w-gr7f-jm2p
  - PYSEC-2026-1897
title: Salt vulnerable to arbitrary event injection
summary: Salt vulnerable to arbitrary event injection
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 >= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12'
  - 'salt >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4'
patched:
  - salt 3006.12
  - salt 3007.4
published: '2025-06-13'
updated: '2026-07-07'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-c46w-gr7f-jm2p'
references:
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22239'
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/41d834bf800d86fc496e4fac2d3875fc2aca7c62
  - 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: 0.00181
epssPercentile: 0.07969
ingestedAt: '2026-07-08T18:25:48.312Z'
---

## Overview

Arbitrary event injection on Salt Master. The master's "_minion_event" method can be used by and authorized minion to send arbitrary events onto the master's event bus.

## Affected packages

- `salt >= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12`
- `salt >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4`

## Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

- `salt 3006.12`
- `salt 3007.4`